ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers the history of psycho-analytic technique. He provides some facts about the prehistory of psycho-analysis which represent something like the milestones on the road to analytic technique. Anxiety and contempt undermined the latent disposition and capacity to understand something of psychopathological phenomena. Thus, the situation constituted a vicious circle in which Sigmund Freud made the decisive breach by approaching these problems in another spirit, free of anxiety, rejection, and prejudice; desirous to discover the unknown, and endowed with the psychological and scientific capacity of a genius. Freud discovered that the analyst’s work is interfered with by a similar phenomenon in himself, that impulses and feelings towards the patient also emerge in him, alien to his function of understanding and interpreting the patient’s resistances and infantile complexes. The countertransference is that other fact and an important reason why the analyst should be analysed before beginning work with patients.
