ABSTRACT
“Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” is a pivotal text. A pivot between the first and second Freudian topographic models, contemporary with the treatment of the Wolf Man, it is stretched between “The Dynamics of Transference” (1912b) and Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g). It also inherits the renewed views of “On Narcissism: An Introduction” (Freud, 1914c) regarding the mechanism of repression and the formation of resistance. One could almost consider this text as a milestone, born at a time when Freud sensed the great upheaval that would take place after “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917e)—i.e. as he was measuring the probable extent of the negative therapeutic reaction, and attempting to unravel the entanglements resulting from the action of hatred and the irruption of acting-in during treatment.
