Countertransference comprises the effects of the analyst's own unconscious needs and conflicts upon his understanding or technique. The patient becomes an object in relation to whom the analyst experience infantile feelings. The analyst listens, using his knowledge and his intuition, and should be legitimately concerned with the psychological obstacles within himself. In psychoanalysis proper, countertransference can never be anything but a hindrance to the proper functioning of therapy. At best, one should be given credit for the readiness to acknowledge and the ability to overcome the countertransference.