Budapest, June 7, 1914
Budapest, June 7, 1914
Dear Professor,
I am thinking a great deal about your paper on narcissism,
and now and again things occur to me that relate to it. Since you
have not yet (I think) finished correcting it, I would like to call
your attention to a passage which could be misunderstood, but
which can be made unambiguous by changing one single word.
You speak of two kinds of end of the world (that of
dementia and that of being in love). The world actually only gets
lost in dementia, while being in love has to do with the end of the
ego, which can nevertheless bring with it no lesser cataclysms and
can be just as revolutionary psychologically as the regression to
narcissism is in dementia.
This time I will spare you further derivatives of this subject.
Frau G. sends kind regards.
Yours,
Ferenczi
In being in love, the world is not destroyed, but the object of love
represents the whole world to the lover.
Budapest, June 7, 1914
Dear Professor,
I am thinking a great deal about your paper on narcissism,
and now and again things occur to me that relate to it. Since you
have not yet (I think) finished correcting it, I would like to call
your attention to a passage which could be misunderstood, but
which can be made unambiguous by changing one single word.
You speak of two kinds of end of the world (that of
dementia and that of being in love). The world actually only gets
lost in dementia, while being in love has to do with the end of the
ego, which can nevertheless bring with it no lesser cataclysms and
can be just as revolutionary psychologically as the regression to
narcissism is in dementia.
This time I will spare you further derivatives of this subject.
Frau G. sends kind regards.
Yours,
Ferenczi
In being in love, the world is not destroyed, but the object of love
represents the whole world to the lover.
Dear Professor,
I am thinking a great deal about your paper on narcissism,
and now and again things occur to me that relate to it. Since you
have not yet (I think) finished correcting it, I would like to call
your attention to a passage which could be misunderstood, but
which can be made unambiguous by changing one single word.
You speak of two kinds of end of the world (that of
dementia and that of being in love). The world actually only gets
lost in dementia, while being in love has to do with the end of the
ego, which can nevertheless bring with it no lesser cataclysms and
can be just as revolutionary psychologically as the regression to
narcissism is in dementia.
This time I will spare you further derivatives of this subject.
Frau G. sends kind regards.
Yours,
Ferenczi
In being in love, the world is not destroyed, but the object of love
represents the whole world to the lover.
Budapest, June 7, 1914
Dear Professor,
I am thinking a great deal about your paper on narcissism,
and now and again things occur to me that relate to it. Since you
have not yet (I think) finished correcting it, I would like to call
your attention to a passage which could be misunderstood, but
which can be made unambiguous by changing one single word.
You speak of two kinds of end of the world (that of
dementia and that of being in love). The world actually only gets
lost in dementia, while being in love has to do with the end of the
ego, which can nevertheless bring with it no lesser cataclysms and
can be just as revolutionary psychologically as the regression to
narcissism is in dementia.
This time I will spare you further derivatives of this subject.
Frau G. sends kind regards.
Yours,
Ferenczi
In being in love, the world is not destroyed, but the object of love
represents the whole world to the lover.