ABSTRACT
Karl Abraham formed part of the prestigious German psychiatric school. In Abraham's nosography, hysteria is the most mature neurosis as its fixation is on the phallic phase in which object-love still excludes genitality. The terminology used by Abraham is commended by J. Sandler and Perlow in a work addressing incorporation and excorporation. When Jung resigned as president of the International Association on 20 April, Abraham was unanimously elected as acting president, although the disciple believed that the movement should be led by its founder. In the early years of psychoanalysis, particularly because of the influence of Karl Abraham, there was a tendency to consider processes of internalisation and externalisation in concrete terms such as "taking in" or "putting into the other person". A simple examination of the Grienstein Index of psychoanalytic works reveals that it was still a long time before specific papers were written on countertansference.
