ABSTRACT
Since Freud, the study of transference has been one of the most important sources of knowledge regarding the child’s psychological processes. As the interpretation is the main expression of the analyst, the patient’s relation to it becomes the preponderant field in that study. The analysis of the patient’s relation to the interpretation hence acquires a threefold interest: it is a study of infancy, it is a working-through of the transference, and it is an indispensable therapeutic (technical) requisite. Any transference interpretation was rejected with particular violence, due to his fear that the analyst might wish to impose upon him or acquire special importance for him. A male patient whose main transference symptom was likewise an intense affective blocking, also expressed in his closing himself up against the interpretations, one day brought the following dream. In the transference the disturbance of the object relation is expressed with great frequency in what, roughly speaking, we call ‘affective blocking’.
