The present work presents a hermeneutic reading of the first psychoanalytic article of the Hungarian doctor Sándor Ferenczi. Using the text "The scope of precoce ejaculation", written in 1908, we try to expose the beginning of Ferenczi's psychoanalytical thought. We take Freud's concept of anxiety neuroses as the main clinical matrix borrowed by the author for the development of his own contributions. From the discussion on physiological factors present on Freud's concept we explicate Ferenczi's expansion of the concept to the cultural field, when he discusses the relationship between man and woman. From this point of view, we focus on the beginning of a new tradition in psychoanalysis, which comprehends the human subjectivation process through the perspectives of the cultural aspects, the interpersonal relations and the human ethics.
freud; ferenczi; history of psychoanalysis; anxiety neuroses