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Jung referred to a "personal transference," which is consonant with Freud's description of transference as repetition of the problematic past, but he also referred to an "archetypal level" of the transference; to depict it, he employed the metaphor of a series of alchemical pictures. The pictures show first a fully clothed king and queen standing far apart, then the king and queen naked and close together. Eventually they are lying in a bath having sexual intercourse. Next is depicted a single body with two heads, lying dead in the tomb-like bath. The sequence ends with a reanimated, unified hermaphroditic king-queen, a wholeness consisting of the union of two polarities. This sequence metaphorically describes the analysand's uniting with disavowed aspects of the self, as well as the interaction with the analyst, in which each is transformed by the other. The acquisition of greater wholeness is seen by Jung as the goal of therapy. And whereas interpretation of the transference is important, it is the full emotional experience of the transference-countertransference relationship that is the primary therapeutic factor.