THE LIMITS OF COUNTER-TRANSFERENCE AND ETHICS

Freud, in both principle and in practise, always tried to link ethical questions to clinical ones. On the condition that he keeps a close watch on his countertransference, an analyst who works with a correct technique is also obeying moral requirements. But the new analytic techniques make the analyst have less control over his countertransference. Should they analyse it simultaneously at the cost of a functional splitting of the ego, or should they orientate themselves via an ethical code which is extrinsic to the analyst ?