In Thalassa,Ferenczi expands the symbols of pallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference to myths but by his interpretations of embryonic, physiological, and psychological facts. he develops the view that the whole of life is determined by a tendency toreturn to the womb, equating the process of birth with the phylogenetic transition of animal life from water to land, and linking coitus to the idea of "thalassal regression": "the longing for the sea-life from which man emerged in primeval times."
If the transference of the erogenous excitability from the clitoris to the vagina has succeeded, the woman has thus changed her leading zone for the future sexual activity; the man on the other hand retains his from childhood. The main determinants for the woman's preference for the neuroses, especially for hysteria, lie in this change of the leading zone as well as in the repression of puberty. These determinants are therefore most intimately connected with the nature of femininity. -from "The Transformations of Puberty" He was a pioneer in the study of human sexuality and the impact of sexual desire on human behavior, and this 1905 work is considered among his most important contributions to the field. This is the source of such concepts as penis envy, castration anxiety, and the Oedipus complex that we take for granted as fundamental to understanding human psychology. In the three essays here-"The Sexual Aberrations," "Infantile Sexuality," and "The Transformations of Puberty"-Freud sets out a theory of human sexuality that continues to influence us today.
Sándor Ferenczi, ein bedeutender ungarischer Neurologe und Psychoanalytiker, war nicht nur ein enger Vertrauter von Sigmund Freud, sondern auch ein innovativer Denker. Seine Arbeiten legten den Grundstein für spätere Theorien, insbesondere in den Bereichen der Objektbeziehungstheorie und Psychotraumatologie. Ferenczis kreative Ansätze und produktiven Ideen prägen die Psychoanalyse bis heute und zeigen seine Vorreiterrolle in der Entwicklung psychotherapeutischer Konzepte.
