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THE productivity of the neurosis (during a course of psycho-analytic treatment) is far from being extinguished, but exercises itself in the creation of a peculiar sort of thought-formation, mostly unconscious, to which the name ‘transferences’ may be given.
“These transferences are re-impressions and reproductions of the emotions and phantasies that have to be awakened and brought into consciousness during the progress of the analysis, and are characterised by the replacement of a former person by the physician.”
In these sentences Freud announced, in the masterly description of a hysterical case,2 one of his most significant discoveries.
Whoever since then, following Freud's indications, has tried to investigate psycho-analytically the mental