ABSTRACT
The theory of transference, one of Freud's major contributions to science, is also the pillar of psychoanalytic treatment. A recent re-reading of "The Concept of Transference" by Thomas Szasz (1963) made the author reconsider the little dilemma, which is surely interesting from the point of view of the history of psychoanalytic ideas. Freud's reasoning on discovering the transference is based on an evaluation of the dependability of the pressure technique. In the "Postscript" to the analysis of "Dora", Freud develops a wide and comprehensive theory of transference, including all the ideas that crystallized in the work of 1912. The theory of transference expounded by Freud in the "Postscript" evoked the interest of his first disciples. Freud himself, in his 1912 article, comments on a work by Stekel in 1911; and Abraham and Ferenczi had also published by this time two important works that complete and broaden Freud's ideas.
