Manifestations of Transference: Love, Friendship, Rapport
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A protracted debate has persisted throughout the history of psychoanalysis concerning transference phenomena and how they resemble or diverge from ordinary relationships outside the analytic situation. Indeed, it is uncertain as to whether the entirety of the analytic relationship is determined by the transference or if “extra-transferential” aspects of the analytic relationship can be said to exist, such as, for example, the so-called working alliance, the real relationship, or the personal relationship. I believe these questions are a consequence of conflicting conceptions of transference, compounded by the uncertainty as to whether or not transference is merely a technical term for a variety of phenomena that are ubiquitous to the human experience. In this essay I explore certain aspects of the transference that are perfectly ordinary outside of analysis, and then endeavor to show how Freud’s views about the nature of love, friendship, and rapport inspired his conception of the transference and the complications that inhere in its resolution.
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