The transference resistances in the psychoanalytic therapy of Freud and some posfreudian conterpounts

Authors

  • Juan Pablo Vildoso Castillo

Abstract

Everything that obstructs the cure constitutes a resistance and its approach is one of the central tasks of psychoanalysis (and of a psychoanalysis). The aim of this article is to initiate an investigation of the psychoanalytic literature of the resistance, making a chronological review of the connections between resistance and transference in Freud’s work under the formula of transference resistance and opening the discussion to post-Freudian developments. The transference resistance is an indisputable fact of the analytical treatment, comes from a negative transference, or from a positive one of erotic dyes, it is expressed differentially depending on the sex of the participants, it refers to the infantile sexuality, it is a carrier of the tendency to act and constitutes one of the classes of resistance of the ego. For Freud, the work of analysis on transferential resistances is indispensable, therapeutic, differentiating and defining psychoanalytic therapy. The post-Freudian developments allow us to glimpse the importance of the triple dimension of the transfer and its hand- ling: imaginary, symbolic and real, and to relieve the destructive load that it can carry.

Keywords:

Transference, resistance, psychoanalysis, Freud, post- Freudians