This book is a collection of Ferenczi’s early papers which secured him, in an amazingly short time, his prominent position among Freud’s followers. Included here are several of the papers that now belong to the classics of psychoanalysis, such as: Introjection and Transference , On Obscene Words , On Onasism: Stages in Development of the Sense of Reality and The Ontogenesis of the Interest in Money . In addition it contains Ferenczi’s pioneer papers on impotence, homosexuality, paranoia, and symbolism.