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International Review of Psycho-Analysis, Volume 19, Part 1, 1992
Freud's initial stipulation of transference is related to and contrasted with the nineteenthcentury neurological tradition out of which he emerged, with particular attention to the works of Brown-Sequard, Charcot and Jackson. Charcot's pre-psychoanalytic stipulation of transference, entirely neglected in the psycho-analytic literature to date, is highlighted.
Through this historical study, I have sought to advance the thesis that the concept of transference is a biologic and an epistemic construct in ways that cannot be fully understood if its origins in the neuroscience of Freud's day are ignored or summarily dismissed as antiquarian and irrelevant.
International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Volume 73, Part 1, 1992
Given the enduring primacy of race in Western cultures, it is always a factor in any psychotherapeutic situation. In this paper, the role of race in elucidating transference manifestations is explored. Vignettes and clinical narratives are used to illustrate the point that race can be a useful vehicle for the expression and elaboration of transferences of defence, of drive derivative and of object ties. Several factors are discussed which influence whether and to what degree race serves as a point of engagement for transference reactions.