The present work has as main objective investigate the contradictions as well as clinical possibilities initiated by the notion of regression. We ll start off from the freudian postulations, through which we ll approach the idea of regression in its intrapsychic aspect associating it with the process of dream and symptom formation. We ll then proceed with authors by us considered relational. Among them, the first to be addressed will be the Hungarian Sándor Ferenczi, who is the first to introduce the idea of regression as a clinical phenomena and to highlight the importance of the analyst s internal world in the therapeutic relationship. Following Ferenczi, we ll regard the works of Donald Winnicott e Michael Balint. Through their contributions we ll bring to light a more detailed and assertive description of the regressive states. However, in all threes authors, as we approach the phenomena of regression, we ll be also examining the idea of counter- transference and the theories regarding the constitution of subjectivity. In the last part of the work we ll propose an approximation to contemporary psychoanalysis in an attempt to describe how the concept of regression contains important innovations for clinical references today. We ll progress by presenting how the discussions about such phenomena through history of psychoanalysis contemplate pivotal clinical aspects such as transference, body and clinical handling.