Maria Pierri is a psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatrist, formerly researcher and adjunct professor at the Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School, University of Padua. She is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association and member of the editorial board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

"This book gives back to contemporary psychoanalysis the pleasure of exploring really little-known territories, fascinatingly restoring the connection between the past, present and "elsewhere" of communications between human beings, using the Freudian experience as its starting point, in order to reconsider in a reflective way the less visible, sometimes disorienting and mysterious levels of psychoanalytic practice. offers us an especially valuable reflection on the mysterious communicating paths which put individual and group unconsciouses in contact with each other, often bypassing in an apparently disconcerting manner the border controls." - Stefano Bolognini, past President of the IPA and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society"Following the thread of thought-transference, Maria Pierri goes through the events of the Freudian endeavour starting from its roots in hypnosis and occultism, through the dialogue with the masters, the pupils and the great female patients, the leading actresses of the cure. In his disquieting curiosity for telepathy, which he shared intimately with Ferenczi, Freud discovers that fortune-tellers, who do not know the future, can read the unconscious of their clients. But the "golden coin" of occultism, the generative mother-child communication, will be the great discovery of Ferenczi." - Luis J. Martin Cabré, Training analyst, past President Madrid Psychoanalytical Association."Today we know much about the polyphonic complex of contexts, experiences, relationships and ideas which made psychoanalysis possible and still nourish its current debates. We can be very grateful to Maria Pierri for bringing us up to date with the role and meaning of some little-known aspects of Freud’s life and work concerning occultism and the fascinating dialogue of the unconsciouses developed with Ferenczi: what the Author identifies as one of the matrices of the developments of contemporary psychoanalysis." - Marco Conci, MC, IPA Committee on the History of Psychoanalysis

• IntroductionStefano BologniniPrologue: a result of character: the cocaine, this magical substance1. Vienna, Porta Orientis of the Unconscious The force of suggestion: the "wonderful somnambulists" HypnosisVienna, laboratory of modernity2. The Young FreudA passionate young researcher into natureFirst love Martha and Bertha: the languages of passion3. The Lesson of Jean Martin Charcot At the SalpêtrièreThe apparatus of language The magic of words4. The lesson of Josef Breuer and the "descent to the mothers"Studies on hysteriaA difficult separation: not all debts can be paidA foundation myth: a false pregnancy and a cure with a defect.5. Sigmund Freud’s lessonThe discovery of a false connection Irma’s throat and the feminine at the origin of psychoanalysis.Dream as desire 6. Fliess and the invention of psychoanalysis A secret correspondence My friend in BerlinFreud’s heart trouble7. The discovery of infantile sexualitySelf-analysis and the writing cure Cherchez la femme: the case of Emma Eckstein8. Original thought requires a ruptureThe "reader of thoughts" The accusation of plagiarism A future in the image of the past: predestination and superstition 9. Occultism made in the USASpiritualism Medium, media, and "mental telegraphy"First hypotheses about the unconscious10 Jung, spiritualism, and countertransference: the world of the deadJung, Poltergeist phenomena, and séances The arrival at Burghölzli First visit to ViennaEaster 1909: Jung’s spiritual complex and Sabina The dangerous fascination of the "beautiful Jewess"11. Ferenczi, the unclassifiableThe sultan and his "clairvoyant" A psychoanalyst "of a restless mind"Ferenczi and the hidden treasure of SpiritualismThe encounter with Freud: a postponed transferential appointment12. A journey to America Three men and an eventful, mutually analytic crossing: the outward journey… … and back again13. The Danaan gift The clairvoyant who reads Ferenczi’s mindThe patient who reads Ferenczi’s mindThe Palermo incident, or the interpretation of paranoiaThe psychic work of the clairvoyant: two unfulfilled prophecies14. An epistolary novelFerenczi and incestuous countertransferential storms: from mother to daughter What is still missing is the fatherly blessing: fatefulness and Oedipal coincidencesElma Pàlos, fragment of the analysis of a seduction The open wound in Ferenczi’s heart, a source of creativity 15. The Saturday goy: getting to know Dr Jones The Welsh liar Difficult beginnings Freud’s first pupil from BritainDr Jones’s stethoscope: rationalisation and censorship of excess countertransferenceA prescribed training analysis in Budapest 16. The intergenerational transmission of psychoanalysis Love and death: the three women of the three pupils"If you go to women, don't forget the whip"At school with Freud: the transmission of psychoanalysis17. The secret committeeThe transformations and the desertion of JungA missed meeting: the "Kreuzlingen gesture" The Committee: the Männerbund and the defence of the "Cause" (Die Sache)Totem and taboo: unconscious intelligence and intergenerational transmission of thought 18. 1913 - the year before the warThe last congress with JungA black tide of occultism The question of telepathyThe dialogues of the unconsciousEpilogue: a fortune-teller visits Freud in BerggasseCorrespondenceIndex

Maria Pierri is a psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatrist, formerly researcher and adjunct professor at the Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School, University of Padua. She is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association and member of the editorial board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

"This book gives back to contemporary psychoanalysis the pleasure of exploring really little-known territories, fascinatingly restoring the connection between the past, present and "elsewhere" of communications between human beings, using the Freudian experience as its starting point, in order to reconsider in a reflective way the less visible, sometimes disorienting and mysterious levels of psychoanalytic practice. offers us an especially valuable reflection on the mysterious communicating paths which put individual and group unconsciouses in contact with each other, often bypassing in an apparently disconcerting manner the border controls." - Stefano Bolognini, past President of the IPA and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society"Following the thread of thought-transference, Maria Pierri goes through the events of the Freudian endeavour starting from its roots in hypnosis and occultism, through the dialogue with the masters, the pupils and the great female patients, the leading actresses of the cure. In his disquieting curiosity for telepathy, which he shared intimately with Ferenczi, Freud discovers that fortune-tellers, who do not know the future, can read the unconscious of their clients. But the "golden coin" of occultism, the generative mother-child communication, will be the great discovery of Ferenczi." - Luis J. Martin Cabré, Training analyst, past President Madrid Psychoanalytical Association."Today we know much about the polyphonic complex of contexts, experiences, relationships and ideas which made psychoanalysis possible and still nourish its current debates. We can be very grateful to Maria Pierri for bringing us up to date with the role and meaning of some little-known aspects of Freud’s life and work concerning occultism and the fascinating dialogue of the unconsciouses developed with Ferenczi: what the Author identifies as one of the matrices of the developments of contemporary psychoanalysis." - Marco Conci, MC, IPA Committee on the History of Psychoanalysis

• IntroductionStefano BologniniPrologue: a result of character: the cocaine, this magical substance1. Vienna, Porta Orientis of the Unconscious The force of suggestion: the "wonderful somnambulists" HypnosisVienna, laboratory of modernity2. The Young FreudA passionate young researcher into natureFirst love Martha and Bertha: the languages of passion3. The Lesson of Jean Martin Charcot At the SalpêtrièreThe apparatus of language The magic of words4. The lesson of Josef Breuer and the "descent to the mothers"Studies on hysteriaA difficult separation: not all debts can be paidA foundation myth: a false pregnancy and a cure with a defect.5. Sigmund Freud’s lessonThe discovery of a false connection Irma’s throat and the feminine at the origin of psychoanalysis.Dream as desire 6. Fliess and the invention of psychoanalysis A secret correspondence My friend in BerlinFreud’s heart trouble7. The discovery of infantile sexualitySelf-analysis and the writing cure Cherchez la femme: the case of Emma Eckstein8. Original thought requires a ruptureThe "reader of thoughts" The accusation of plagiarism A future in the image of the past: predestination and superstition 9. Occultism made in the USASpiritualism Medium, media, and "mental telegraphy"First hypotheses about the unconscious10 Jung, spiritualism, and countertransference: the world of the deadJung, Poltergeist phenomena, and séances The arrival at Burghölzli First visit to ViennaEaster 1909: Jung’s spiritual complex and Sabina The dangerous fascination of the "beautiful Jewess"11. Ferenczi, the unclassifiableThe sultan and his "clairvoyant" A psychoanalyst "of a restless mind"Ferenczi and the hidden treasure of SpiritualismThe encounter with Freud: a postponed transferential appointment12. A journey to America Three men and an eventful, mutually analytic crossing: the outward journey… … and back again13. The Danaan gift The clairvoyant who reads Ferenczi’s mindThe patient who reads Ferenczi’s mindThe Palermo incident, or the interpretation of paranoiaThe psychic work of the clairvoyant: two unfulfilled prophecies14. An epistolary novelFerenczi and incestuous countertransferential storms: from mother to daughter What is still missing is the fatherly blessing: fatefulness and Oedipal coincidencesElma Pàlos, fragment of the analysis of a seduction The open wound in Ferenczi’s heart, a source of creativity 15. The Saturday goy: getting to know Dr Jones The Welsh liar Difficult beginnings Freud’s first pupil from BritainDr Jones’s stethoscope: rationalisation and censorship of excess countertransferenceA prescribed training analysis in Budapest 16. The intergenerational transmission of psychoanalysis Love and death: the three women of the three pupils"If you go to women, don't forget the whip"At school with Freud: the transmission of psychoanalysis17. The secret committeeThe transformations and the desertion of JungA missed meeting: the "Kreuzlingen gesture" The Committee: the Männerbund and the defence of the "Cause" (Die Sache)Totem and taboo: unconscious intelligence and intergenerational transmission of thought 18. 1913 - the year before the warThe last congress with JungA black tide of occultism The question of telepathyThe dialogues of the unconsciousEpilogue: a fortune-teller visits Freud in BerggasseCorrespondenceIndex

Maria Pierri is a psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatrist, formerly researcher and adjunct professor at the Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School, University of Padua. She is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association and member of the editorial board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

"This book gives back to contemporary psychoanalysis the pleasure of exploring really little-known territories, fascinatingly restoring the connection between the past, present and "elsewhere" of communications between human beings, using the Freudian experience as its starting point, in order to reconsider in a reflective way the less visible, sometimes disorienting and mysterious levels of psychoanalytic practice. offers us an especially valuable reflection on the mysterious communicating paths which put individual and group unconsciouses in contact with each other, often bypassing in an apparently disconcerting manner the border controls." - Stefano Bolognini, past President of the IPA and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society"Following the thread of thought-transference, Maria Pierri goes through the events of the Freudian endeavour starting from its roots in hypnosis and occultism, through the dialogue with the masters, the pupils and the great female patients, the leading actresses of the cure. In his disquieting curiosity for telepathy, which he shared intimately with Ferenczi, Freud discovers that fortune-tellers, who do not know the future, can read the unconscious of their clients. But the "golden coin" of occultism, the generative mother-child communication, will be the great discovery of Ferenczi." - Luis J. Martin Cabré, Training analyst, past President Madrid Psychoanalytical Association."Today we know much about the polyphonic complex of contexts, experiences, relationships and ideas which made psychoanalysis possible and still nourish its current debates. We can be very grateful to Maria Pierri for bringing us up to date with the role and meaning of some little-known aspects of Freud’s life and work concerning occultism and the fascinating dialogue of the unconsciouses developed with Ferenczi: what the Author identifies as one of the matrices of the developments of contemporary psychoanalysis." - Marco Conci, MC, IPA Committee on the History of Psychoanalysis

• IntroductionStefano BologniniPrologue: a result of character: the cocaine, this magical substance1. Vienna, Porta Orientis of the Unconscious The force of suggestion: the "wonderful somnambulists" HypnosisVienna, laboratory of modernity2. The Young FreudA passionate young researcher into natureFirst love Martha and Bertha: the languages of passion3. The Lesson of Jean Martin Charcot At the SalpêtrièreThe apparatus of language The magic of words4. The lesson of Josef Breuer and the "descent to the mothers"Studies on hysteriaA difficult separation: not all debts can be paidA foundation myth: a false pregnancy and a cure with a defect.5. Sigmund Freud’s lessonThe discovery of a false connection Irma’s throat and the feminine at the origin of psychoanalysis.Dream as desire 6. Fliess and the invention of psychoanalysis A secret correspondence My friend in BerlinFreud’s heart trouble7. The discovery of infantile sexualitySelf-analysis and the writing cure Cherchez la femme: the case of Emma Eckstein8. Original thought requires a ruptureThe "reader of thoughts" The accusation of plagiarism A future in the image of the past: predestination and superstition 9. Occultism made in the USASpiritualism Medium, media, and "mental telegraphy"First hypotheses about the unconscious10 Jung, spiritualism, and countertransference: the world of the deadJung, Poltergeist phenomena, and séances The arrival at Burghölzli First visit to ViennaEaster 1909: Jung’s spiritual complex and Sabina The dangerous fascination of the "beautiful Jewess"11. Ferenczi, the unclassifiableThe sultan and his "clairvoyant" A psychoanalyst "of a restless mind"Ferenczi and the hidden treasure of SpiritualismThe encounter with Freud: a postponed transferential appointment12. A journey to America Three men and an eventful, mutually analytic crossing: the outward journey… … and back again13. The Danaan gift The clairvoyant who reads Ferenczi’s mindThe patient who reads Ferenczi’s mindThe Palermo incident, or the interpretation of paranoiaThe psychic work of the clairvoyant: two unfulfilled prophecies14. An epistolary novelFerenczi and incestuous countertransferential storms: from mother to daughter What is still missing is the fatherly blessing: fatefulness and Oedipal coincidencesElma Pàlos, fragment of the analysis of a seduction The open wound in Ferenczi’s heart, a source of creativity 15. The Saturday goy: getting to know Dr Jones The Welsh liar Difficult beginnings Freud’s first pupil from BritainDr Jones’s stethoscope: rationalisation and censorship of excess countertransferenceA prescribed training analysis in Budapest 16. The intergenerational transmission of psychoanalysis Love and death: the three women of the three pupils"If you go to women, don't forget the whip"At school with Freud: the transmission of psychoanalysis17. The secret committeeThe transformations and the desertion of JungA missed meeting: the "Kreuzlingen gesture" The Committee: the Männerbund and the defence of the "Cause" (Die Sache)Totem and taboo: unconscious intelligence and intergenerational transmission of thought 18. 1913 - the year before the warThe last congress with JungA black tide of occultism The question of telepathyThe dialogues of the unconsciousEpilogue: a fortune-teller visits Freud in BerggasseCorrespondenceIndex