ABSTRACT

Negativising transferences or transferences of the negative must be distinguished from negative transferences proper. Linked to a negativity in the transference that is often difficult to reverse or to a negativisation of the transference they neutralise the process by annihilating its transformative capacities, by devitilising it and emptying it of its richness a sterile approach that culminates in anti-processuality. A background noise, which was not immediately identifiable, nonetheless emerged: it seemed linked to points of narcissistic and identity-related tension that had appeared quietly, creating notes of discordance in a process which, initially, seemed to manifest the vicissitudes of a transference neurosis. Moreover, as a backcloth to murderous wishes to attack the analysis and the analyst, this dream contained a scenario of seduction highlighting elements of a primal scene involving the analyst, a scene in which he was the subject and the object.