ABSTRACT
Unconscious resistance was more significant and more difficult of resolution. In the course of trying to understand this, S. Freud made the discovery of transference, one of the greatest discoveries in psychiatric therapy. Between 1900 and 1912, Freud's simple formulation of transference was in accordance with his conception of neurotic processes at that time. Both resistance and transference are much more thoroughly understood, but one should never forget the daring courage of Freud's original formulation. One very important source of resistance is what Freud called the secondary gain of illness. The patient-analyst situation is, therefore, not as simple as Freud originally thought. Not all attitudes towards the analyst are transference attitudes. Transference has been much more extensively studied since 1925 than before. By 1927 when Wilhelm Reich had formulated the idea that defensive character trends constituted the chief resistance in analysis, these trends were unobtrusively and without a struggle included under transference phenomena.
