The discovery of transference was inevitable because of the transition from the cathartic method of treatment to free association and psychoanalysis. The admission of the patient's untrammeled fantasy life and range of interests into the analytic setting shifted the search for forgotten memories to an examination of contemporary behavior as a scene of interaction between present needs and past dispositions. Transference, from the beginning, was associated with a disposition to act. This is understandable, as it derives partly from archaic techniques for the relief of tension and the attainment of satisfaction. The disturbing features have attracted attention to oral impulsivity, preverbal residues, and resistant acting out as alternatives to verbalization in the analytic setting. In a larger sense, however, the motor aspects of transference are part of the motor testing of reality inherent in the secondary process and include, as in the Dora case, relatively mature adaptations of the personality.

A review of the 'three phases' of psychoanalytic technique, as