Flight into sanity Jones's allegation of ferenczi's mental deterioration Reconsidered

摘要

In 'The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud', Volume III, Ernest Jones explained Ferenczi's final contributions as the product of a mental deterioration based on a progressive psychosis. Erich Fromm collected various testimonies by witnesses of Ferenczi's last years, all con- Trasting with Jones's assertions, and challenged Jones's manner of writing history. However, Since Fromm was himself a dissident, and his witnesses were pupils, relatives or friends of Ferenczi's, they were discarded as 'partisans'.