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. 2022 Dec;82(4):548-573.
doi: 10.1057/s11231-022-09372-9.

Raised in the world of psychoanalysis: an interview with Judith Dupont

Aleksandar Dimitrijević  1
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Raised in the world of psychoanalysis: an interview with Judith Dupont

Aleksandar Dimitrijević. Am J Psychoanal. 2022 Dec.

Abstract

This interview with Dr. Judith Dupont contains her reminiscences and thoughts about two topics of importance for the historiography of psychoanalysis. First, Dr. Dupont recalls her growing up among and meeting with pioneers, such as Vilma Kovács, Alice and Michael Balint, Melanie Klein, Imre Hermann and others. Second, Dr. Dupont reconstructs the chronicle of Ferenczi's manuscripts: how they were entrusted to Michael Balint by Ferenczi's widow, the complex reasons Balint could not publish them for more than 30 years, and finally, how Dr. Dupont succeeded in bringing the Clinical Diary to the public, and thus enriched contemporary psychoanalysis with the presence of Ferenczi after more than 50 years of silence and censorship.

Keywords: Clinical Diary; Ferenczi; Judith Dupont; fifty years of censorship of Ferenczi’s works; interview.

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