This fascinating collection explores the life of renowned psychoanalyst Michael Balint in his native Budapest. With a Balint revival in mind, Michael Balint and his World: The Budapest Years brings together the work of psychoanalysts, social thinkers, historians, literary scholars, artists and medical doctors who draw on Balints work in a variety of ways.
The book focuses on Balints early years in Budapest, where he worked with Sįndor Ferenczi and a circle of colleagues, capturing the transformations of psychoanalytic thinking as it happens in a network of living relationships. Tracing creative disagreements as well as collaborations, and setting these exchanges in the climate of scientific, social and cultural developments of the time, Michael Balint and his World: The Budapest Years follows the development of psychoanalytic thinking during these critical times. The book recalls the story of several lost children of the Budapest School and reconstitutes Balints important early contributions on primary love. It also examines his little-known relationship with Lacan, including the extended discussion of Balints work by Wladimir Granoff in Lacans first public seminar in Paris in 1954, published here for the first time.
This important book provides a fresh perspective on Balints enormous contribution to the field of psychoanalysis and will interest both scholars and clinicians. It will also inspire those interested in clinical practice and the applications of psychoanalysis to the cultural sphere.
Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Contributor Affiliations
Editor's Note Chronology of MichaelBįlints life Part 1: Budapest Trails
1. A
Brief Introduction to the Balints and Their World: Object Relations and
Beyond
2. Michael Bįlint, his world and his Oeuvre 2a. André Haynal: In
Memorium
3. The Problems of Education and Society in the Budapest School of
Psychoanalysis 3a. Ferenc Ers: In Memorium
4. "I look into a room through a
round gap." Alice Bįlint's Life, Work and Diaries Part 2: Creativity and
Primary Love
5. Therapy, Object Relations and Primary Narcissism:
Metapsychology in the Early Works of Michael Bįlint
6. Primary Harmony: Baby
Observationon Infantile Hopes and Quiet States
7. Human Links
8. Michael
Bįlint and the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis on the Importance of
Creativity Part 3: Lost Children of Psychoanalysis
9. Lost Children of the
Recent History of Psychoanalysis: Tibor Rajka MD, 1901-1980
10. Remembering
Dr Istvįn Székįcs-Schönberger
11. My Debt to Michael Bįlint Part 4: Links
Rediscovered
12. Introduction to Wladimir Granoff's Presentation on Balint at
Lacan's Seminar
13. Presentation on Balint at Lacan's Seminar Freud's Papers
on Technique, 26 May 1954
14. Lacan's Balint: Synergies and Discords in a
Professional Friendship Author Biographies
Judit Szekacs-Weisz, PhD, is a bilingual psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Born and educated (mostly) in Budapest, Hungary, she has taken in the way of thinking and ideas of Ferenczi, the Balints, Hermann and Rajka as an integral part of a professional mother tongue. Living and working in a totalitarian world sensitised her to the social and individual aspects of trauma, identity formation and strategies of survival.
Raluca Soreanu is Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and psychoanalyst, member of the Cķrculo Psicanalķtico do Rio de Janeiro. She is the project lead of FREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for Our Times (UKRI Frontier Research Grant).
Ivan Ward is former Deputy Director and Head of Learning at the Freud Museum London, where he worked for 33 years. He is author of a number of books and papers on psychoanalytic theory and the applications of psychoanalysis to socio-cultural issues. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL Psychoanalysis Unit.
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