ABSTRACT
Michel Neyraut is a psychiatrist and full member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. His work on the transference-countertransference relationship has brought about significant developments in our understanding of psychoanalytic treatment. Furthermore, the transference is not only second in the history of analytic thought; it also appears to come second in analytic treatments, that is to say, it appears after a certain delay. The transference occurs or appears in the course of a dynamic process called the psychoanalytic process. The analyst's countertransference begins, then, with his implication; it is because he suddenly recognises himself as the object, and perhaps already as the instigator of affective expressions coming from his patient, that he notices in himself the effect of a resistance. Psychoanalytic thinking necessarily forms part of a response. This is because the analytic situation originates with a demand.
