ABSTRACT
In the meantime, while pursuing the strategic technique of arriving at transference, the analyst will have obtained a considerable insight both qualitatively and quantitatively into the patient’s psychic structure. Transference may be defined as a specific displacement of affect, positive and negative, from one person (usually the parent) on to another person, e.g. the analyst, or it may be defined as a projection on to the analyst of affects originally experienced towards the parents during the period of infantile amnesia. One of the common premonitory signs of developing transference neurosis is a tendency on the part of the patient to forget his symptoms and previous complaints, to cease to produce memories of his past, and instead to take to a process of telling the analyst in great detail all the events, objective and subjective. On account of the intolerability of the emotions connected with the Oedipus complex it will take a great deal to overcome the resistance to their emergence.
