ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on mapping the metapsychological issues involved in the evolution of the concept of countertransference towards that of reverie. The phenomenon of countertransference has been so much discussed in psychoanalytic literature that to say anything new on the subject is something of a challenge. Paradoxically its being so highly discussed indicates the presence of important gaps yet to be filled towards understanding the process. Pierre Fedida, reflecting on the appropriation of the concept of countertransference by the French school and concerned with the possibility of the transformation of psychoanalysis into a psychology of communication and or of interpersonal relations, warns us about the need to build a metapsychology of countertransference. It would have as its model the metapsychology of the dream, namely, the production of representations and the logic which articulates dreamwork.
