Foreword by Adrienne Harris Reading FerencziA Pirouette Backwards in Seven-League Boots An Introduction by Jenny Willner, Jakob Staberg and Raluca SoreanuCuts Through the Contemporary Scene Ferenczi Dialogues – an Outline The Seven Threads of the ‘Ferenczi Revival’ PART 1 Instead of Language: ConfusionSigmund Freud / Sándor Ferenczi Jakob StabergFerenczi in the Psychoanalytic Milieu Transference Trauma The Domain of Dreams A Painful Encounter ‘Too much of the father’: A Schreberian Pre-History response to Jakob Staberg, by Jenny WillnerThe Tactile Eye and Queer Spectrality response to Jakob Staberg, by Raluca SoreanuPART 2 Catastrophes and GenitalityFerenczi’s Thalassa and the Politics of Bioanalysis 91Jenny WillnerFreud’s Theory of Sexuality Meets Popular Darwinismin a Soldiers’ Library The Fish-Orgy:Wilhelm Bölsche’s Herrings and Ferenczi’s Thalassa Weltanschauung: Fetishistic Disavowal in Popular Darwinism Neurotic Evolution: Bioanalysis vs. Biologism Heroic Organs, Hysteric Organs: The Method of Bioanalysis The Politics of Bioanalysis Reading Against the Grain: On How Organs Crave Interpretation 131response to Jenny Willner, by Jakob StabergWhat Does an Organ Do? 137response to Jenny Willner, by Raluca SoreanuPART 3 Catastrophe and the Creativity of FragmentsToward a Phenomenology of the Scene of TraumaRaluca SoreanuA Frame: On Ferenczi’s Model of Memory Repetition Scene Regression The Dream of Fragments in The Clinical Diary On the Identification with the Aggressor Moment 1: Paralysis Moment 2: Dematerialisation Moment 3: Traumatic Imitation Moment 4: Guilt Moment 5: Getting Beside Oneself Moment 6: Traumatic Progression Moment 7: Autotomy Moment 8: Neo-Formations Moment 9: Orpha Moment 10: Reconstruction There is Hope for Life in Fragments: Thinking with Ferenczi’s Images 193response to Raluca Soreanu, by Jenny WillnerToward an Eventful Psychoanalysis 203response to Raluca Soreanu, by Jakob StabergBibliography About the Authors IndexContemporary reading of Sándor Ferenczi’s trauma theoryFerenczi Dialogues presents the contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to a psychoanalytic theory of trauma and discusses the philosophical, political and clinical implications of Ferenczi’s thinking. To a far greater extent than Freud, Sándor Ferenczi centered his psychoanalytic thought around trauma.Ferenczi's work pluralizes the notion of catastrophe, as being both destructive and a turning point. This book addresses Ferenczi’s work in terms of thinking in times of crises, by considering contemporary situations in constellation with various scenes from the past: the outbreak of the First World War, the crisis of psychoanalysis as an institution, the disastrous final encounter between Ferenczi and Freud, the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, and the impending exile of the founding members of the psychoanalytic movement. Against this backdrop, the authors show how Ferenczi's late work outlines a new metapsychology of fragments. Ferenczi Dialogues situates the legacy of Ferenczi within the broad interdisciplinary landscape of the social sciences, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice, and highlights Ferenczi’s relevance for contemporary philosophical discussions in poststructuralism, feminism and new materialism.Ferenczi Dialogues presents the contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to a psychoanalytic theory of trauma and discusses the philosophical, political and clinical implications of Ferenczi’s thinking. To a far greater extent than Freud, Sándor Ferenczi centered his psychoanalytic thought around trauma.Ferenczi's work pluralizes the notion of catastrophe, as being both destructive and a turning point. This book addresses Ferenczi’s work in terms of thinking in times of crises, by considering contemporary situations in constellation with various scenes from the past: the outbreak of the First World War, the crisis of psychoanalysis as an institution, the disastrous final encounter between Ferenczi and Freud, the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, and the impending exile of the founding members of the psychoanalytic movement. Against this backdrop, the authors show how Ferenczi's late work outlines a new metapsychology of fragments. Ferenczi Dialogues situates the legacy of Ferenczi within the broad interdisciplinary landscape of the social sciences, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice, and highlights Ferenczi’s relevance for contemporary philosophical discussions in poststructuralism, feminism and new materialism.