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The 2025 Jeremy D. Safran Memorial Lecture celebrates the legacy of Jeremy Safran, whose wide-ranging intellectual curiosity led to significant contributions in many areas of scholarly inquiry, including the establishment of the Sándor Ferenczi Center at The New School with Dr. Adrienne Harris and Dr. Lewis Aron in 2008.


This year, the conference will host Dr. Peter L. Rudnytsky, the author of, most recently, Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory. Dr. Rudnytsky will present a paper, titled "Ferenczi’s Secret Life: Mutual Analysis as a Relational Paradigm," in which themes of his book are embedded. 

 

Ferenczi’s mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis.  Attacked by conservative commentators as a boundary violation and an exploitation of the patient, the paper defends Ferenczi’s experiment on both counts and argues that mutual analysis serves as a paradigm for the two-person model of relational analysis, as Freud’s self-analysis is a paradigm for the one-person model of classical analysis. Ferenczi’s return to Freud’s pre-1897 misnamed “seduction theory,” and his concomitant modifications of therapeutic technique, caused him to go underground and develop a “secret life” from Freud in a way that has until recently been necessary for trauma theorists.

 

Following his presentation, the floor will open for audience participation and discussion. 


A light lunch and refreshments will be served.


Learning Objectives
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: 

1. To explain how Ferenczi and Severn jointly rehabilitated Freud’s original “seduction theory” to introduce a genuine trauma theory into psychoanalysis.
2. To trace the pre-psychoanalytic origins of trauma theory and its legacy in analysts from Fairbairn to Bromberg.
3. To show the connections between trauma theory and the modifications of therapeutic technique developed by Ferenczi and Severn.
4. To contrast Freud’s authoritarian and Ferenczi’s humanistic conceptions of psychoanalysis.


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For students and practitioners of all levels 


CE Credits (2 hours) available for
New York Psychologists, Social Workers, MHCs, and Licensed Psychoanalysts
APA CE credits also available for Psychologists


Participants must the attend the seminar in its entirety to receive CE credits


Zoom information will be sent to participants one day prior to the event.

Presented by The Sándor Ferenczi Center at The New School

Cost

 General Admission: $25
New School students and current institute candidates: Free 

(please email NSSRFerencziCenter@gmail.com to reserve)

Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs as well as Chair of the Committee on Confidentiality of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He was editor of American Imago from 2001 to 2011 and is currently editor of the History of Psychoanalysis series for Routledge and coeditor of the Psychoanalytic Horizons series for Bloomsbury. His books include Freud and Oedipus (1987), Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck (2002), for which he received the Gradiva Award, and Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory (2022). His latest book, Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition: Augustine to Milton, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. A graduate of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, he maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Gainesville, Florida.