TY - BOOK AU - Bokanowski,Thierry TI - 1924, a storm within the “Secret Committee” PY - 2022///. N1 - 81 N2 - At the end of 1923 and the beginning of 1924, two members of the “Secret Committee”, Ferenczi and Rank published The Development of Psychoanalysis, an essay that sought to answer the question raised by Freud in 1922 concerning the influence of the technique on the theory and vice-versa. At the same time Rank published The Trauma of Birth. These two publications led to sharp criticism and an internal conflict between the other members of the Committee. The main reasons for the hostility were linked to the fact that certain theoretical and technical methods proposed seemed to return to the idea of shortening the length of treatments, particularly the “active technique” proposed by Ferenczi. However, from a reading of The Development of Psychoanalysis one could conclude that certain propositions stemmed from a wish to make up for the absence of theoretical concepts concerning the place of the primary object and of its transference effects, including the countertransference, in analytic practice UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-psychanalyse-2022-4-page-801?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -