ABSTRACT
Since the time of the introduction of the term countertransference by Freud in 1910, psychoanalytic literature has been replete with many references to the phenomenon, along with numerous attempts to discuss, define, and otherwise elaborate conceptual formulations for the countertransference problem. Sharp emphasized both the ubiquitous quality and the quantitative aspects of the feelings and reactions of the analyst. During the course of the first year of analysis, forward motion and progress in the analysis occurred, in spite of the patient's assumption of a somewhat stubbornly resistive anal position in the transference, and even though she suffered with considerable guilt in relation to her rich libidinal and aggressive fantasy life. It would be incomplete to leave a discussion of this nature without going into some of the metapsychological aspects of the countertransference, counterdefense problem, because these theoretical formulations are fundamental to our understanding of and scientific approach to the problem.
