From Metapsychology to Magnetic Gnosis: An Esoteric Context for Interpreting Traumatic Modes of Transcendence in Sándor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary and Elizabeth Severn's The Discovery of the Self

It has been argued that the essential themes in Sándor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary (1932) centre around three major axes (theoretical, technical and personal). This paper proposes a fourth: namely, an occult or esoteric axis. To make the case for its presence in the Clinical Diary, the article provides a brief introduction to the academic study of Western esotericism in order to more adequately situate its proximate fin de siècle occult precursors vis-à-vis psychoanalytic metapsychology. A brief account of Ferenczi's correspondence with Freud on the role of the occult in psychoanalysis is then provided. This constitutes the necessary context for embarking upon an investigation into the ‘psychognostic’ metapsychology co-developed during the course of Ferenczi's ‘mutual analysis’ with the so-called ‘evil genius’, Elizabeth Severn. By way of conclusion, James Grotstein's account of a ‘numinous and immanent psychoanalytic subject’ is highlighted as the locus for a synergistic rapprochement between pre-Freudian and contemporary psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the subject congruent with the ‘Orphic trajectory’ outlined in this paper.

“A Dress of Fire”: Reading Sándor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary

Ferenczi's Clinical Diary reveals an exceptional analyst who honestly and bravely documented radical clinical experiences and theoretical insights about the tragic impacts of trauma. The author follows Ferenczi's thinking from his falling out with Freud and his view of the classical psychoanalyst's objectivity and emotional detachment as triggers of the original trauma, through the use of the countertransference to lay bare trauma, eventually issuing in his radical experiment in mutual analysis. The Diary's fate in the history of psychoanalysis reflects that of its thinking on trauma: Beginning with Ferenczi's decades-long silencing and exclusion from the main psychoanalytic community, together with the silencing of actual trauma, this history evolved into the revival and dissemination of Ferenczi's thinking and the reappraisal of the role of actual trauma.

The Role of the Mechanism of Competencies in Providing Employment and Career Growth of Human Resources

The article examines the issues of employment and employment based on competencies, factors that prevent graduates and young professionals from finding work on time and in specialization, to identify practical solutions to improve the use of the competency mechanism, demonstrating theoretical approaches in this area. The study used methods of observation, survey, analysis and comparison. The author used a mutual analysis of labor activity, economic indicators and educational level, revealed the influence of the quality of competencies on labor results. The analysis of various approaches to the use of the competence mechanism in decision-making in human resource management of an organization has been carried out. The directions in which educational institutions can effectively promote the employment of graduates and improve the competencies of the human resources of organizations have been substantiated. As a result of the study, recommendations were made to improve the effectiveness of the use of the competence mechanism in ensuring the employment of human resources. Scientific novelty of the research — the main proposals are related to the organization of employment management of graduates and increasing the motivation of human resources of organizations through certain competencies. Particular attention was paid to optimizing the work of civil servants through the use of the competence mechanism.