This volume presents a series of papers that appeared in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis during the 1950s. It recognizes a turning of psychoanalytic attention from the exploration of the analysand's intra-psychic experience to mapping out equally relevant psychoanalytic concerns.

Andrew C. Furman, Steven T. Levy

Series Preface -- Introduction -- Hate in the counter-transference1 -- On counter-transference -- Counter-transference and the patient's response to it -- A contribution to the problem of counter-transference -- Normal counter-transference and some of its deviations -- On counter-transference 1 , 2 -- Current concepts of transference -- Attacks on linking -- Notes on symbol formation -- Autism and symbiosis, two extreme disturbances of identity -- New beginning and the paranoid and the depressive syndromes -- On transference -- Transitional objects and transitional phenomena 1 -a study of the first not-me possession 2 -- The nature of the child's tie to his mother -- Some remarks on the role of speech in psycho-analytic technique -- Some reflections on the ego 1