What happened? And when? How did it happen? Did it happen?

History [of psychoanalysis] – facts and/or documents: correspondence versus memory

Abstract

When someone wants to recollect only a little part of past events – in this study the history of psychoanalysis – some difficulties will necessarily be emerging. The documents contradict each other, and it is hard to decide which is true of them. The present study is a typical example for this problem – while dealing with some cases of Sándor Ferenczi.