ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the theme of really acted out incest, distinguishing it from incestuous fantasies. It focuses on an exquisitely clinical aspect regarding cases of really acted out incest: the countertransference and, more specifically, a complex countertransference condition that has been activated with women patients who have been the victims of maternal incest. In recent years there have been many important psychoanalytic contributions on “the feminine”, aimed at finally liberating the female figure from the mortifying Freudian triad of “masochism, passivity, narcissism”. The chapter also presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book. The works published in the book seem to focus on two points of great interest. One revolves around the oedipal and pre-oedipal events, and the other concerns a background theme of no less importance: how have patients changed during the last twenty years, but, especially, how have we analysts changed.
