Abstract

LEITAO, Leopoldo Gonçalves. Contratransferência: uma revisão na literatura do conceito. Aná. Psicológica [online]. 2003, vol.21, n.2, pp.175-183. ISSN 0870-8231.

This work is a brief diachronic revision of the concept of counter-transference. The modest synthesis of these authors covers only the concept's evolutionary, complex and problematic process. Originally described by Freud as an obstacle to understanding, forty years later it emerged as an instrument of understanding that made the analyst more responsible in his work. Reference is also made to the changing analytical climate after World War II, as the concept of counter-transference began to re-emerge from obscurity. Authors such as Heimann, Racker and others are distinguished for having organised this doctrine into a complete work by linking Freud's original idea with Reik's idea about intuition as the analyst's best instrument. Lastly, although still enveloped in controversy, the concept of counter-transference has been increasingly gaining a certain permanence and stability in the lexicon of analysis.

Keywords : Counter-transference; obstacle; instrument, intuition; projective identification; projective counter-identification; counter-transference neurosis; concordant and complementary counter-transference; direct and indirect counter-transference; empathy; the analytic third.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )