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VITORELLO, Daniel Migliani  and  KUPERMANN, Daniel. From taboo to Filotetes: Ferenczi and the psychoanalytic movement. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.68, n.3, pp. 17-31. ISSN 1809-5267.

This article aims to discuss the reasons why the work of Ferenczi was the subject of a great ostracism and caused a massive and persistent resistance from the analytic community. Through the controversy between Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, one can see that while Freud created the principle of abstinence and its correlates, as neutrality and coldness, Ferenczi, in his turn, was not afraid to relating with their patients in order to favor relationship and the principle of relaxation. It happens that, from there, Ferenczi touched the mains prohibitions raised by Freud as taboo and, therefore, he became a taboo, which should be avoided, to the analytical community. However, one can see that like Filotetes, unfairly treated by peers, Ferenczi became nowadays a clinical indispensable to analytic society that once despised him and now has to take him back because of his contributions to the theory and to the current clinical practice.

Keywords : Sándor Ferenczi; Sigmund Freud; Neutrality; Professional hypocrisy; History of psychoanalysis.

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