ABSTRACT
This chapter deal with "The Dynamics of Transference", which Freud wrote in 1912 and included in his technical works. Freud attempts to solve two problems: the origin and the function of the transference in psychoanalytic treatment. Analytic treatment, Freud continues, has to overcome the introversion of the libido, which is motivated by the frustration of satisfaction on the one hand, and by the attraction of unconscious complexes on the other. The major problem Freud poses in 1912 is why transference, basically an erotic phenomenon, is so well suited to be a means of resistance in analysis, which does not seem to happen in other therapies. In this case, in fact, Freud uses a psychotherapeutic rather than a psychoanalytic criterion. The chapter helps to understand Freud's determination to explain transference as a function of resistance, and this reasoning leads to the classification of transference proposed by Lagache in his valuable report of 1951.
