This article summarizes the basic ideas presented by the author in her doctoral thesis: “The bodily memory and the transfer”.
The transfer phenomenon gains a special place because it favors the retrieval of sensible impressions through its hallucinatory regressive characteristic. The transfer is used to allow the emergence of the patient’s bodily memory, this process has given us new elements to treat somatic patients and also patients with other psychic structures.
The author also intends to emphasize the role of the sensorial in the psychoanalytic theory and technique.