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The following abstracts are edited versions of English summaries which appeared in Forum and are published with the permission of the journal.
Recent conceptualizations of the analytic situation refer increasingly to its interactional aspects. Exploring the development of the analytic relationship, the author shows how some aspects of the analyst's personality, ego-syntonic belief systems, and concepts concerning the analytic process greatly determine what is transferred by the patient. Analysts are often involved in this actualized transference in a very subtle way by these aspects of themselves which become part of the transference and cannot be easily confronted because of their ego-syntonic nature. On a latent level these enactments show the tendency to build up an unconscious set of rules for therapeutic communication which gains a relative autonomy with respect to the conscious goals of the analyst. This system of an enduring interactional structure may determine the transference and countertransference as well as the analytic process like an autopoietic system that generates itself in a recursive process. Therapeutic and theoretical aspects are discussed.