Analysis of Transference is concerned with the continually evolving relationship between patient and psychoanalyst in the transference “here-and-now” of the office. All other transference meanings as they relate to extra-transference relationships (contemporary relationships outside the analysis) or even to the genetic, historical memories of the past, are viewed as less “affectively immediate” (Vol. I, p. 145) than the emotional interactions in vivo. The main argument of the first of this two volume series on theory of technique is that interpretation of transference is too often neglected in current psychoanalytic practice. Freud is also accused of paying scant theoretical and technical attention to transference communications of his patients, in the couse of a detailed review of the literature on his and other analysts' work on the topic of transference interpretations.

Gill accepts Freud's definition of transference as stereotyped