ABSTRACT
This chapter presents how, after 1914, Jung went on differentiating his understanding of the concepts of transference and countertransference, and how for him the analytical relationship is an encounter in which both patient and analyst can be transformed. The example Jung used in 1931 in ‘The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis’ to illustrate how dreams can mirror the attitude of the patient to the doctor, and the case in 1937 in ‘The Realities of Practical Psychotherapy’, to illustrate his postulations on the mutual influence between the patient and the doctor were both the case of Reichstein. Her case was used by Jung to demonstrate his understanding of the process of the transference-countertransference, because he dreamt about her and his dream led him to evaluate his approach to the case and to assume a different attitude towards her.
