Abstract

LAMBRECHT, Marta Úrsula. The analyst observing herself: subtleties in countertransference. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2013, vol.47, n.3, pp. 143-155. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author examines, from the clinical perspective, turbulent and delicate co untertransferential phenomena, which manifest themselves in a longitudinal section of a long and deep analysis. The clinic is used to show the subtle difference between projective counter-identification (Grinberg, 1956), complementary and concordant countertransference (Racker, 1960/1982) and the possibility of its staging in the analytic field by means of an acute enactment (Cassorla, 2012). These mechanisms, many of them erected on the basis of (pathological) massive projective identification, can take on a disturbing character to the duo, due to the impact and consequences they can cause. The author shows, after examining the communicative movements, that, though at the risk of disrupting the analytical field, the analysis of phenomena arising at the session revealed itself as being primarily a (healthy) realistic projective mechanism which was brought to stage through an interpretive act, which allowed the opening of space for the network of symbolic thought. Intimate aspects are revealed to make possible the objectification of this complex phenomenon, and a reflection is made upon the role of the analyst, who, as an obstructer or facilitator of the process, could be supportive of developments in contemporary psychoanalysis.

Keywords : countertransference; projective counter-identification; interpretive action; enactment; projective identification.

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