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In order to define transference, Abadi suggests that the notion of projection should be replaced by that of attribution, a mechanism by which someone becomes the object to whom something is attributed. Transference occurs in two stages, the first corresponds to the destructuring of something that may be the symptom, and the second, the restructuring (or the structuring of something new) that replaces the destructured symptom which we call transference. Abadi (1980) focuses on the first stage, which sometimes can be of short duration, and which involves not only the destructuring of a relationship, but also reality loss. What is transferred, in fact, is not real: we might call it phallus, omnipotence, wholeness, immortality; in short, the inkling that “all that exists in the other is a guarantee that some day it will be given to me, it will be part of me” (Abadi 1980, p. 698). A comparison is established between transference and the psychotic process: there is certain reality loss and the real object is un-known. The fact that transference is unconscious not only allows the setting in motion of the primary process (substitution or displacement), but also becomes the condition for the maintenance of the relationship that has been transferred. On the other hand, the patient has certain inkling, introspective in nature that something strange is happening to him but he cannot quite understand what it is. The delusional conviction, usually induced by transference, that that person is someone who in fact he is not, has been repressed but the cracks in the process of repression generate a compromise formation with what tends to repress the conviction. Therefore, Abadi establishes a distinction between the transference typical of the psychotic – for whom the other is only a distorting mirror in which he sees a part of his own Ego reflected, or a precipitate of a libidinal relationship with an object – and another kind of transference, typical of the neurotic patient, in which we infer the repressed transference and from which we can only see a product, a ‘hybrid’, typical of all structures characterised by compromise formation. Abadi considers that transference proper is unconscious and that the so-called neurotic’s transference is a compromise formation similar to a symptom. The psychoanalytic task in the cases of neuroses will be to dissolve the false connections, while in the cases of psychotic patients that observation will prove pointless and dispensable and “the only thing to do is to directly offer the interpretation that crushes transference proper” (Abadi,1980, p. 700 ). VII. Ae. Willy Baranger and Madeleine Baranger In 1946, Willy and Madeleine Baranger came from France to Argentina, where they joined the psychoanalytic movement that was developing. Later, when they moved to Montevideo, they also helped constitute the Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Movement, but went back to Argentina in 1966, where they settled for good.
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