{"title":"Tenderness in Our Work. Orpha and the Orphic Psychoanalyst.","authors":"Olivia Farkas","doi":"10.1057/s11231-026-09559-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Towards the end of his life, the psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi proposed the notion of Orpha, the protective psychic fragment that we can perceive in patients who have experienced massive traumas. This clinical paper explores this concept and the role of the psychoanalyst's orphic function in the transferential relationship, and tenderness, a notion little used in psychoanalysis, which can appear in this link, like a tool enabling the relationship between analyst and patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"259-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-026-09559-4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Towards the end of his life, the psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi proposed the notion of Orpha, the protective psychic fragment that we can perceive in patients who have experienced massive traumas. This clinical paper explores this concept and the role of the psychoanalyst's orphic function in the transferential relationship, and tenderness, a notion little used in psychoanalysis, which can appear in this link, like a tool enabling the relationship between analyst and patient.
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international psychoanalytic quarterly founded in 1941 by Karen Horney. The journal''s purpose is to be an international forum for communicating a broad range of contemporary theoretical, clinical, professional and cultural concepts of psychoanalysis and for presenting related investigations in allied fields. It is a fully peer-reviewed journal, which welcomes psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought that address the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and contribute meaningfully to the understanding of human experience. The journal publishes original papers, special issues devoted to a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, and comments.