ABSTRACT
Like the Oedipus complex, the notion of transference appeared gradually in Freud's work until it became a major motor of the psychoanalytic treatment. In 1910, during the period when Freud was writing his recommendations on technique, he founded the International Psychoanalytic Association so that the psychoanalytic method he had created could develop under better conditions while retaining its specificity. Freud states that the phenomenon of transference is not exclusive to psychoanalysis. A certain number of patients do not recall their past and cannot communicate their experiences which date back to a time before the emergence of verbal language. That is why they are condemned to repeat instead of remembering. Freud also takes into account the affective components of love and hate that the patient feels in the transference in relation to the psychoanalyst. Thereafter, the notion of the countertransference continued to evolve and post-Freudian psychoanalysts would regard it as a major instrument for elaborating the transference within the psychoanalytic relationship.
