ABSTRACT
It is surprisingly difficult to find examples of what actually happens in countertransference states. The material presented in Chapter 3 is an attempt to demonstrate the phenomenology of countertransference – countertransference “from the inside out.” In Jungian psychology (and even to some extent in the psychoanalytic literature) one looks in vain for the this kind of detailed discussion. Almost nowhere in the Jungian literature, for instance, can a personal recounting of a countertransference dream be found, except for Jung's oft-cited dream of the patient in the tower (Jung 1937, 1943, 1950, 1961a) 1 . In this instance Jung led the way and nobody followed. Imperfect as it (or the analytic work) may be, the previous chapter is the most extensive written document to date on the phenomenology of countertransference from a Jungian perspective 2 .
