ABSTRACT
Transference neurosis is a dual-aspect term introduced by Sigmund Freud in 1914 in two enduring works. In "Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through", he defines it as a technical concept, in that he indicates a special modality of development of psychoanalytic treatment, according to which the original illness is transformed into a new one orientated towards the therapist and the therapy. Melanie Klein spokes of transference neurosis because she did not yet know that in the following years, the psychotic phenomenon in particular, and narcissism in general, were to become incorporated in the operative field of the psychoanalytic method. There was a relation of transference and countertransference that can only be conceived as perverse, and it took time for the author to realize what was happening; only then could he emerge from the perversion that mobilized the patient at the time.
