ABSTRACT
Within a historical-clinical framework in which the development of psychoanalytic thought on the process of transference-countertransference is underlined in light of the (often conflicting) binomial “acting cure– talking cure,” we would like to present our thoughts on role-reversal, and on why this primitive inter- and intrapsychic dynamic, at the forefront in our practice and at the center of what is repeated during the longer-term wave of an analytic treatment, has not yet been explicitly granted sufficient theoretical space in our literature, despite being precociously identified and explored by Ferenczi.
