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==Sigmund Freud==
[[Freud]] coined the term "[[countertransference]]" to designate the [[analyst]]'s "[[countertransference|unconscious feelings]]" towards the [[paintientpatient]].
Although [[Freud]] only used the term very rarely, it became much more widely used in [[psychoanalytic theory]] after his [[death]].
In particular, [[analyst]]s soon divided over the role allotted to [[countertransference]] in discussions of [[technique]].
On the one hand, many [[analyst]]s argued that [[counter-transferencecountertransference]] manifestations were the result of incompletely analysed elements in the [[analyst]], and that such manifestations should therefore be reduced to a minimum by a more complete [[training]] [[analysis]].
On the other hand, some [[analyst]]s from the [[Klein]]ian [[school]], beginning with Paula Heimann, argued that the [[analyst]] should be guided in his [[interpretation]]s by his own [[countertransference]] reactions, taking his own feelings as an indicator of the [[patient]]'s state of mind.
[[Lacan]] refers to two of [[Freud]]'s case studies to illustrate what he means.
===Dora===
In 1951, he refers to the [[Dora]] case, and argues that [[Freud]]'s [[countertransference]] was rooted in his [[belief]] that [[heterosexuality]] is [[natural]] rather than [[normative]], and in his [[identification]] with Herr K.
If anything, the better analysed the [[analyst]] is, the more likely he is to be frankly in [[love]] with, or be quite repulsed by, the [[analysand]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 220</ref>.
If, then, the [[analyst]] does not [[act]] on the basis of these [[feeling]]s, it is not because his [[training]] [[analysis]] has drained away his [[passion]]s, but because it has given him a [[desire]] which is even stronger than those [[passion]]s, a [[desire]] which [[Lacan]] calls the [[desire of the [[analyst]]]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 220-1</ref>
==Affect==
==See Also==
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* [[Affect]]
* [[Analyst]]
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* [[Desire]]
* [[Interpretation]]
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* [[Training]]
* [[Transference]]
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* [[Treatment]]
* [[Unconscious]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Treatment]]
[[Category:Practice]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Language]]
[[Category:Symbolic]]
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