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(1927). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 8:93-100

Technik Der Psychoanalyse: I. Die Analytische Situation.: By Dr. Otto Rank. 1926. (Franz Deuticke, Leipzig and Vienna. Pp. 211. Price Gm. 7.)

Review by: S. Ferenczi

Rank's recent writings dealing with the technical side of psycho-analysis have aroused general interest in two directions: they have laid far more stress than usual on the factor of transference or, as Rank calls it, the 'analytical situation', and in the second place they have urged us to pay more attention than has been done hitherto to the part played by the analyst in that situation as mother. I have already had frequent occasion to point out the importance and practical value of the first of these points, and I have made every effort to convince myself equally of the validity of the second. One obstacle to my doing so was that Rank had hitherto omitted to give any precise account of the technique employed by him. Thus it was with great interest that I (and many others too, no doubt) welcomed the appearance of a work from his pen upon the technique of psycho-analysis. Unfortunately, however, the feelings left by my study of this book have been almost entirely those of di

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