After reading the very well documented presentation of Michel Vincent, I realized that for many psychoanalysts there is this temptation, that I'm also attracted to, to consider that the change in psychoanalysis, “the real” change starts with the post-Freud authors, not only in a chronological way, but in a logical one too. One of Michel Vincent's contributions is to demonstrate that in Freud's works the change is already there, not only as a continuous enrichment, but also sometimes as a spectacular restructuring. Among other things, Michel mentions the classical example of transference, considered firstly as an obstacle in front of the analytical process, and then, several decades later, as the very engine of the same process.

Symmetrically thinking, I immediately had in mind the countertransference and its destiny in Freud's works, realizing that, in this regard, the psychoanalysis founder's thinking couldn't go beyond a certain