This paper aims to stimulate the reasoning about the transfer as fundamental concept for the seizure and the understanding of the illness, in its spreader sense, and of the psychopathology particularly. Much more than a “device” of the psychoanalytical technique, the transfer constitutes itself as a real paradigm for the revealing experience of the unavoidable fusion of the relationship of two humans beings’ suffering. It’s the elaboration of this experience that permits the creation of the psychopathological knowledge.
It is here about underlining how, even before the formulation of this concept, Freud’s sensitivity to his transferential experience, in relation to his study objects and to his personal and professional relationships, became an essential carrier that enabled his passage from the neurology toward the psychoanalysis. This dimension is very little taken in account in the history of the psychoanalysis as well as in that one of the transfer concept. The elaboration of this experience was a fundamental element that allowed Freud to theorize and transform his reasoning that brought about his passage from the neuro-physiologic research and the classical internal medicine toward the development of the psychoanalysis, as a therapeutic method and a theoretical corpus.
Transference; psychoanalytical technique; psychoanalytical history; hypnosis