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THIS PAPER FOCUSES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSFERence and externalization. I shall explore how aspects of this relationship are linked to the latency period, how they manifest themselves clinically, and which technical measures they imply. Last, I shall present some tentative thoughts on how countertransference may interfere with our understanding and clinical handling of the interrelated phenomena of transference and externalization.
In his discussions of transference Freud (1905), (1912), (1915), (1916–17), (1937) stated repeatedly that all people transfer unconscious libidinal aspects of their relationships from primal objects to current ones. The neurotic's transference, inside and outside the analytic setting, differs only in quantity due to his or her lack of real gratification and regression—or introversion—from current realities. Freud noted that some aspects of the transference tacitly and helpfully contribute to the patient-analyst relationship