THE HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT COUNTERTRANSFERENCE follows the development of several significant ideas. Freud noted in 19102 his first awareness of what he called the countertransference, which, he said, arises in the analyst as a result of the patient's influence on the analyst's unconscious feelings. And then in 1912 he added two very special notions: (1) that the analyst's own unconscious be used as a receptive organ toward the transmitting unconscious of the patient (Note that Marconi, who had invented the wireless in 1895, and had transmitted across the Atlantic in