In this paper I will be looking at the nature of the transference relationship, and asking whether it can be seen as a template for understanding other relationships outside the analytical setting. I will be positing the idea that there are relationships with profound similarities to the analytic relationship in areas as diverse as the creative arts and family generations. It is my feeling that through a close inspection of creative transference relationships, such as the relationship between a reader and a text, we can begin to understand how dyadic transference relations are formed and acted out. I am also hoping to show that through other transference relationships we can learn to interpret and analyse the feelings of countertransference. I am suggesting that transference and countertransference feelings are not restricted to the analytical setting.