THE LIMITS OF AN ANALYST: RESISTANCE OR COUNTER-RESISTANCE

Abstract: The term counter-resistance in the analysis has been accepted as the analyst’s unconscious identification with the resistance of the analysand. In their clinical practices, psychoanalysts acknowledged different kind of resistances, displayed by the analyst in various situations, it is debated whether only counter-resistance should be accepted or the analyst can have resistance responses not only because of analsysand’s transference but also because of her own capacity and limitations. Freud’s writing on his second homosexual case who was referred to a woman analyst because of her resistances gives us some clues also about analyst’s possible resistances because of his overwhelming experiences.