The authors set out a few theoretical notes concerning transference-counter- transference phenomenology in the treatment of those narcissistic personalities described by Kernberg as “infantile personalities” and adolescents who reactivate the narcissistic pattern which, at the beginning of life, represented salvation. According to the authors the narcissistic relationship—cathected and experienced before it is actually perceived—is recognizable in mnemic traces which are evidence of that relationship and produce narcissistic transference when reactivated. It develops from the “narcissism” that is not limited to early developmental phases but which is a real psychoemotional function. Specifically, this function tends toward the erotization of intensely pleasant or unpleasant sensations that have actually been experienced and which remain as unrepresentable traces. The