The role of the transference in the Wolf Man case

The Wolf Man case offers the last detailed record of Freud's work and his appraisal of the therapeutic vectors in analysis, including the transference. The Wolf Man, Sergius Pankejeff, died on May 7, 1979 in Vienna in a municipal institution at the age of 92. Kurt Eissler (1980) reported in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis that although his mental faculties were in a decline, his last two years of life were peaceful (pp. 104-105). This essay has attempted to demonstrate that Freud's therapeutic emphases in 1914 were centered on memory revival sufficient to allow for reconstruction to be made that would explain the neurotic conflicts. The transference was in fact viewed as a facilitator in the revival of the significant childhood memories.