


Transference is a universal phenomenon at play and dominates the whole of each person's relations to his human environment. It is at play in what hypnotist have named 'suggestibility'.
Transference is first perceived as an obstacle to psychoanalysis before it was realized that it is this obstacle itself that is the key process of psychoanalysis.
Transference is, in the analytic situation, the placing of the analyst in the place of his father or mother.
Transference is an interpersonal and interobjectival process. Which ascribes significance retroactively to the real.
Transference is an obstacle to analysis, but one without which the actualization of repressed emotions would be impossible.
Transference is comparable to an illness... regressive and unsettling, like being in love.
Transference is ambivalent, comprising both affectionate and hostile attitudes toward the analysis. As such it is an instrument of irreplaceable value and a source of serious dangers.