This article analyses the regressive hallucinatory character of the transference, based on a study by the author on “The bodily dimension of the transference,” presented at the Laboratory of Fundamental Psychopathology at the São Paulo Catholic University.
Transference greatly favors the appearance of regression, indicating a sensorial aspect that is inherent in the communication that goes on between analyst and analysand. The notions of regression and repetition in psychoanalysis provide an understanding of how certain bodily manifestations are the expression of a re-awakened bodily memory.
The article stresses the importance of remaining attentive to the sensory aspects of certain contemporary symptomatologies which have the common denominator of an incapacity for representation.
Transference; regression; repetition; hallucination; sensorial registers