ABSTRACT
The phenomenology of counter transference is rarely discussed in print, for various reasons, some of them valid. While attempts to "expose" counter transference may indeed collide with narcissistic-exhibitionistic issues, the "phenomenology of counter transference" is nevertheless of considerable clinical value. However, the precise meaning of this, as well as its possible clinical implications, were not enlarged upon in detail except by Michael Fordham and the London-based Society of Analytical Psychology group. In general they are part of an effort to fill in the gaps left by Jung's more symbolic, less clinical stance. Jung's fertile unconscious did lead him away from the more purely clinical interests of his early professional years. However, Jung's opus is virtually devoid of clinical examples. It begs for the grounding in therapeutic reality that a practical example would give. The unconscious material in impersonal form is given prominence over the "personal", just as it is in Jung's extended case studies.
