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The internalizing transference is the complement to the externalizing and displacing transferences.
The internalizing transference replaces the experiences of the analytic situation and process by their intrapsychic representations. Analytically altered structure can follow this development.
A tripartite view of transference is proposed, consisting of displacing, externalizing, and internalizing coordinates that can fix a point at which the transference is located at any time.
The internalizing transference has its own dynamic. It can be employed as resistance; there can also be resistance to internalizing which blocks insight and disrupts the treatment alliance, as illustrated in the case vignettes. There is a corresponding mapping of counter-transference at any time. To fix the analyst's position, the three coordinates of counter-displacement, counter-externalization, and counter-internalization can be delineated and described.
The optimal consequence of the internalizing transference is the development of the analyst and analysand as a new real object and subject, and structural modifications that follow in both.
The capacity to internalize cannot be newly created but should be in situ as part of the patient's adult mentation and analyzability.