ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that use of the word counter-transference would be to describe ‘abnormality in counter-transference feelings, and shows that relationships and identifications that are under repression in the analyst. The interpretation relates the specific transference phenomenon to a bit of the patient’s psychic reality, and this in some cases means at the same time relating it to a bit of the patient’s living. In analysis the analyst will be given the clues so that he can interpret not only the transference of feelings from mother to analyst, but also the unconscious instinctual elements that underlie this, and the conflicts that are aroused, and the defences that organize. A therapist wholly engaged in work with patients who display an antisocial tendency would not be in a good position to understand the psycho-analytic technique or the operation of the transference, or the interpretation of the transference neurosis.
