ABSTRACT
It was Michel Neyraut who introduced, running contrary to commonly held ideas, the notion of the precession of the countertransference in relation to the transference. In his approach to the transference, it is essentially this dialectical character of the analytical encounter that Neyraut highlights. He shows that it is the transference that comes second in two respects: as a concept, it appeared retrospectively; in analysis it cannot be first because it occurs during the analytic process. After reading the text on the precession of the countertransference, the analyst remembered, in echo with this first session, a formula that had come to her several years earlier during the last sessions of her own analysis, in which the transference was associated with a hard drug. The weakness that analyst had no doubt perceived in his eyes had made her understand that she was going to be put under severe pressure in the transference.
