ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of transference neurosis. In his "On Narcissism: An Introduction", Freud established a clear difference between transference neurosis and narcissistic neurosis, affirming that only in the former is there a capacity for object relations, that is, a transference of libido that makes psychoanalytic treatment possible. The chapter proposes new version of the illness that arises in the treatment comprises not only neurotic but other types of symptoms. It considers another extension of the concept, the one Racker proposed in his work, "The Countertransference Neurosis". Within the psychoanalytic process, the function of the analyst is both as interpreter and as object. The countertransference influences these two functions, facilitating or obstructing the course of the cure. In contradiction to Freud, to Glover and to all those who have dealt with the middle stage as a unitary one, Meltzer distinguishes two stages: projective identification and stage of geographical confusions. Meltzer understands the psychoanalytic process in terms of separation anxiety.
