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Therapeutic as well as didactic analyses heighten the sensitivity for the unconscious as a consequence of analysing the patient's or candidate's own repressions. Beyond the requirements for patients, training analyses set candidates the additional task of becoming their own objects of study. After a certain phase of training, they must not only surrender to the experience of the unconscious, but also direct their attention to psychoanalytic technique. The difference between the conscious motives of patient and training analysand (distress v. training motivation) results in a difference of emphasis when analysing id and ego resistances, which may be decisive for the duration of the treatment. A substantial difference between the two types of analysis lies, however, in the circumstances surrounding the occurrence of transference. Since the training analyst and the candidate are involved in a practical professional relationship, the former always represents more than a mere shadowy figure or a mirror for the projection of infantile conflicts; this causes difficulties in the interpretation of transference phenomena.