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Close analogies exist between the relations of infant and mother and of patient
and analyst. The lying down, the passivity, the regression, and other aspects, make the situations similar. Greenacre has also emphasized that the matrix of transference comes largely from the original quasi union of mother and child in the first months of life. The analytic situation is in some respects like the earliest stages of development of the infant's object relations.