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Reference:
Greenberg, L.
Transference and Psychoanalyst’s Fear
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2011. № 6.
P. 39-48.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=58617
Greenberg, L. Transference and Psychoanalyst’s Fear
Abstract:
The author makes a suggestion that an analyst’s fear causes variety and abundance of the theories about
transference. The author describes how the Freud’s conception developed from the very beginning when transference
was viewed as a form of resistance, and to the moment when it was used as the basic method of therapy. Traditional
and later views of the author on transference and its management are studied in the context of general conceptions
existing in other schools and branches of psychology. The article also covers concepts of a negative transference. The
article describes a few cases when an analyst responds to a patient’s transference by struggling with his own feelings
of countertransference. The author underlines the importance of a proper training of a psychoanalyst and his experience
in overcoming regressive attacks of parental projections without appealing to theoretical and technical means
of defense. As the author assumes, transference is not a resistance on its own although it can be actually used in this
quality. An analyst should not interpret a growing internal response to a patient’s regressive feelings just to avoid the
feeling of anxiety. At the end of the article the author underlines the important of intuition, countertransference and
sublimated projective counter identification.
Keywords:
psychology, psychoanalysis, unconsciousness, analyst, transference, countertransference, resistance, sublimation, fear, fantasies.
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