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Further Advice on the Technique of Psychoanalysis. III.1 Remarks on the Transference. sigmund freud.
Some Remarks on the Theory of Resistance. dr. theodor reik.
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1Further Advice on the Technique of Psychoanalysis. III. Remarks on the Transference. — While the beginner in psychoanalysis may tremble at the difficulties in front of him, by far the hardest situation to handle is the transference Übertragung. This is the situation where a female patient falls violently in love with the physician.
For the cultivated layman two issues are possible. One, less frequently possible, is for the love to lead to a legitimate union; the other, more likely result, is the ending of all relations. There is a third possibility thinkable, an illegitimate relation, but in reality this is impossible both for moral and professional reasons.
It is evident that the standpoint of the psychoanalyst must be different.
If we consider the second possibility, where patient and physician separate, obviously the treatment ceases. But the condition of the patient makes another analysis necessary. The patient falls in love with the second physician, then with a third, and so on. This fact, one of the foundations of the psychoanalytic theory, leads to two results, one for the analyst, the other for the patient.
For the physician it is a costly awakening, a good warning against the ever ready tendency to reciprocation of the transference Gegen-iibertragung. He must understand, too, that the love of the patient awakened through the analytic situation is not a true love aroused by his personality, that he has no ground for being proud of his “conquest.” For the patient, however, there is an alternative; either she must give up a psychoanalytic treatment, or she must regard falling in love with the analyst unavoidable.
Certain physicians who use the analytic method introduce the patient early to the phenomena of transference, even i