FERENCZI,SANDOR - ASPIRATION AND FAILURE - A PRESENT-DAY VIEW ON HIS APPROACH TO REGRESSION

In evaluating the findings of his experiments with psychoanalytic tech niques, Ferenczi discovered the meta-function of the analyst's techniq ue and the various forms of transference projected onto the psychoanal ytic situation. What militated against a full understanding of his own discoveries was the lack of a genuinely comprehensive conception of t he transference/counter-transference process as a functional unity. Hi s experiments failed because he was unable to resolve the dilemma betw een technique and relationship that his dual objective had placed him in, seeking to combine a technique for transforming repetition into me mory with an attitude communicating new experience.