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From the beginning Freud had a constant preoccupation with counter-transference, which he felt as a threat to the reputation of psychoanalysis. In one of his letters (Freud , 512) he advises Jung against publishing an article on countertransference, and suggests that it be circulated only among psychoanalysts.
As Cremerius (1985) points out, when confronted by dramatic situations Freud in fact resorted to a twofold concept of transference: a neurotic transference and an unobjectionable transference. In the first instance Freud kept absolutely neutral and just stuck to interpretation. On the other hand, when he judged he was dealing with an unobjectionable transference he could become quite personal and even start conversing with the patient about himself and his own affairs. Some of today's psychoanalysts may consider this defensive escamotage rather primitive: it has nevertheless been handed down and has survived at least until the years when the analysts of my generation were being trained in Italy. Freud's device