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In spite of their profound originality, the apparent heterodoxy of certain theoretical and technical propositions put forward by Ferenczi ultimately became the object of a profound theoretical and practical disagreement with Freud. This disagreement concerned, in particular, certain hypotheses to do with countertransference difficulties encountered during analytic work with a number of complex clinical situations related to an infantile past of a traumatic type (primary traumatisms). On account of this disagreement, some of his important propositions were partially ignored by the analytic community of the period, but have since been recognized as having all the more value in that they are considered today as “precursors” of many original ideas put forward by important authors such as M. Klein, W.R. Bion and D.W. Winnicott.