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It has been my clinical experience that women in analysis invariably and during certain phases experience a more or less defined erotized transference. Freud (1915) was not disturbed by such manifestations because he recognized that transference love would include the repetition of early childhood experiences. He did indicate, however, that those patients who insist on transference gratification could not be analyzed. Blum (1973) notes that Freud does not discuss homosexual transference love, or erotized transference love or erotized transference to the analyst of the same sex. He was concerned about inappropriate countertransference to the appearance of transference love (p. 62).
Blum makes a distinction between the erotized transference and the erotic transference, seeing the former as a particular species of erotic transference, an extreme sector of a spectrum. It is an intense, vivid, irrational, erotic preoccupation with the analyst, characterized by overt, seemingly ego-syntonic demands for love and sexual fulfillment from the analyst (p. 63).
I would like to add to these classifications two other subspecies of transference that occur with particular strength among homosexual women, but that occur in milder forms in the large majority of female analysands. These two subcategories are the sensual and the sexual