CENTERS AND PUBLICATIONS
Sándor Ferenczi Center
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The Sándor Ferenczi Center promotes the
The New School’s Ferenczi Center sponsors
work and legacy of Sándor Ferenczi (1873–
lectures, conferences, and workshops relevant
1933), a close associate of Sigmund Freud’s
to Ferenczi’s legacy of clinical innovation and
and an important psychoanalytic pioneer
social and political progressivism, with the
who spent four months lecturing at The New
aim of contributing to the ongoing vitality of
School in 1926. Ferenczi is known for his
psychoanalysis as a cultural, intellectual, and
innovative clinical work, his willingness to
therapeutic discipline. The Ferenczi Center
work with the most difficult of patients, his
is affiliated with the International Ferenczi
socially and politically progressive attitudes,
Foundation and the Sándor Ferenczi Society.
and his promotion of a cultural climate that facilitated interdisciplinary conversation
blogs.newschool.edu/sandor-ferenczi-center
between psychoanalysis, the arts, the
nssrferenczicenter@gmail.com
humanities, and the social sciences.
Fig. 8 In 1926, The New School for Social Research offered the first continuing adult education course in psychoanalysis, taught by Freud’s associate Sándor Ferenczi (top row, far right).
