ABSTRACT

I am now going to use some material to illustrate some points I have dealt with in my lectures on transference and on interpretation. I am not going into the details of the case, nor the case history, intending only to show how a transference experience repeats former experiences, of both real and phantasy situations, and leads to memories both of real happenings and of emotional attitudes in the patient. Such memories are accompanied by bodily sensations, which both dramatise the phantasies and are repetitions of actual painful bodily experiences in early childhood. This leads on to phantasy material concerned with the patient’s inner world.