ABSTRACT
We do not doubt the importance of the close relationship between transference and counter-transference forming the central axis of the analysis in any treatment. However, in this chapter, we will primarily be concerned with elucidating the existence of certain psychic processes that are covered over most of the time by the transference/counter-transference dynamic.We shall also be trying to identify situations where a shared complicity – frequently an unconscious homosexual complicity – between the two protagonists of the session, impedes the emergence of a certain mode of relating that, owing to its unusual or strange nature, is experienced as disturbing or even disorganising. A feature of this mode of relating is that an area of the psyche of which the subject was hitherto unaware strives to find its way into consciousness. In the first place, our intuition will be based on an idea halfway between scientific hypothesis and fiction, concerning the evolution of Freud’s thought and his successive transferences on to Fliess, Jung, then Romain Rolland, and finally Moses, at the end of his life.
