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Sándor Ferenczi Center
from 2020 NSSR Viewbook
Sándor Ferenczi Center
The Sándor Ferenczi Center promotes the work and legacy of Sándor Ferenczi (1873–1933), a close associate of Sigmund Freud’s and an important psychoanalytic pioneer who spent four months lecturing at The New School in 1926. Ferenczi is known for his innovative clinical work, his willingness to work with the most difficult of patients, his socially and politically progressive attitudes, and his promotion of a cultural climate that facilitated interdisciplinary conversation between psychoanalysis, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences.
The New School’s Ferenczi Center sponsors lectures, conferences, and workshops relevant to Ferenczi’s legacy of clinical innovation and social and political progressivism, with the aim of contributing to the ongoing vitality of psychoanalysis as a cultural, intellectual, and therapeutic discipline. The Ferenczi Center is affiliated with the International Ferenczi Foundation and the Sándor Ferenczi Society.
