ABSTRACT
In his original paper Plaut refers more than once to 'incarnating it', referring to the archetypal image. In the first place Jung's case, which Plaut cited, showed that the patient could distinguish Jung from the daemonic image as in an ordinary transference. Plaut claims that the 'positive aspects of the differentiation had not yet been described' when he wrote his paper published in 1956. This statement is not surprising in view of the rather inadequate level of communication between analysts at that time, but the idea of positive counter-transference has a history. The discovery had an indirectly positive result in that the distinction led to instituting training analysis in the early days of psychoanalysis. It was implied in Jung's 'The therapeutic value of abreaction' and developed into the idea of the dialectical process. No doubt Plaut, like the author was ignorant of the developments taking place in psychoanalysis.
