Peter T. Hoffer PhD

Professor of German

BA (Columbia University)

MA(Tufts University)

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Modern German literature, history and culture; Intellectual history; History of psychiatry/psychoanalysis; Translation

The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sàndor Ferenczi, vols. I, II, III (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 1996, 2000).
(with A. Hoffer) A Phylogenetic Fantasy: Overview of the Transference Neuroses (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987).

From Elasticity to the Confusion of Tongues: A Historical Commentary on the Technical Dimension of the Freud/Ferenczi Controversy.” Psychoanalytic Perspectives. A Journal of Integration and Innovation, Vol. 7.1, Spring 2010
“Ferenczi’s Collaboration with Rank: On Paradigm Shift and the Origins of Complementarity in Psychoanalysis.” The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2008, 68 (128-138).
(2005) Reflections on cathexis. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 74: 1127-1135
(2003) The wise baby meets the enfant terrible: The evolution of Ferenczi's views on development. Psychoanalytic Psychology 20, No. 1. 18-29.
Hoffer P., Hoffer, A. (1999) Ferenczi's fatal illness in historical context. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 47, No. 4. 1257-1268.
(1994) Stefan Zweig, Freud, and the literary transference. Literature and Psychology 40, nos. 1 & 2. 10-23.

Office location:	East Building Room 204
Mailing address:	Box 102 University of Sciences 600 South 43rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495
Office Phone:	215.596.8905
Email:	p [dot] hoffer [at] usciences [dot] edu