ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author reviews every single contribution made by French psycho-analysis to the subject of the counter-transference. She draws upon a comprehensive paper by Louise de Urtubey presented in Lisbon in 1994 at another Congress of French-Language Psychoanalysts. French psychoanalysis was to approach the counter-transference not only in terms of the dual, and line of the transference and the countertransference, but as an entity within a wider, triangular topographical and temporal space, on a psychoanalytic stage bounded by an envelope with which it entertained relations of exchange and conflict. The transference, according to Michel Neyraut, is actually a retroactive effect of S. Freud’s discovery, appearing as an obstacle to an already constituted thought and technique; it therefore stands out against a context as a resistance. For Piera Aulagnier, the transference-countertransference asymmetry is essential to the preservation of an analytic relationship, situation and space.
