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02: Transference

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Relationship Between Transference and Normal Development

Anna Freud and Melanie Klein who are doing child analysis. They have a very major fight in the mid century that involves whether or not kids can be analyzed. The way she sort of reconciles this is by saying that yes kids can form transferential relationships but that transferential relationship is happening on like what we could call a very archaic level. Young has this idea that that there's a he leans into the idea of identification with the analysts uses a phrase like participation mystique.

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