ABSTRACT
It is known that the psychoanalytical process is conditioned by a series of factors of different types. Among them it is important to single out the continual interplay of projections and introjections which develops during the analysis, on the part of both the analysand and the analyst. Through complementary countertransference each analyst, identifying himself with his patient's internal objects, will react in a personal way, according to the type and nature of his own conflicts. Different analysts will react in a different way faced with the same patient material. In "complementary countertransference" a reaction always arises which corresponds to the analyst's own conflicts. In "projective counteridentification" the analyst takes upon himself a reaction or mechanism that comes from the patient. Racker is one of the authors who have paid most attention to the problem of countertransference; he has succeeded in explaining the complexities arising from the different meanings attached to the term.
