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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'.

It is a universal phenomenon of the human mind, it decides the success of all medical influence, and in fact dominates the whole of each person's relations to his human environment. We can easily recognize it as the same dynamic factor which the hypnotist have named 'suggestibility', which is the agent of hypnotic rapport and whose incalculable behaviour led to difficulties with the cathartic method as well. (From Freud : 'An Autobiographical Study' 1925)

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.

This fact of transference soon proves to be a factor of undreamt-of importance, on the one hand an instrument of irreplaceable value and on the other hand a source of serious dangers. This transference is ambivalent: it comprises positive (affectionate) as well as negative (hostile) attitudes towards the analyst, who as a rule is put in the place of one or other of the patient's parents, his father or mother. (From Freud 'An Outline of Psychoanalysis' 1940)

is an interpersonal and interobjectival process. Which ascribes significance retroactively to the real.

For i ek, transference is what ascribes significance retroactively to the Real: 'We are 'in transference' when we believe that real freedom is 'in its very nature'

is an obstacle to analysis, but one without which the actualization of repressed emotions would be impossible.

Later on, Freud still views transference as an obstacle to analysis, but also accepts that without it, the actualization of repressed emotions would be impossible.

is an obstacle which becomes the very key to the psychoanalytic process.

When Freud initially encountered transference in his therapy with clients, he felt it was an obstacle to treatment success. But what he learned was that the analysis of the transference was actually the work that needed to be done. (wikipedia transference)

is comparable to an illness... regressive and unsettling, like being in love.

transference as comparable to 'an illness, insofar as it is a regressive and unsettling experience, not dissimilar to. . . the state of being in love'.[5] ' (wiki

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.

is, in the analytic situation, the placing of the analyst in the place of his father or mother.

Moreover, the relation of transference brings with it two further advantages. If the patient puts the analyst in the place of his father (or mother), he is also giving him the power which his super-ego exercises over his ego, since his parents were, as we know, the origin of his super-ego.

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