
02: Transference
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Importance of Transference in Psychoanalytic Treatment
During psychoanalytic treatment, the formation of new symptoms is invariably stopped. The productive powers of the neurosis are by no means extinguished. They are occupied in the creation of a special class of mental structures that we call transferences. These facsimiles replace some earlier person by the person of the physician. To put it another way, a whole series of psychological experiences are revived and applied to the present moment.
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