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02: Transference

Ordinary Unhappiness

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Transference Love: The Motor of the Analytic Cure

In the treatment situation love if you lean into it in this enactment way is the impediment to insight and healing. It's precisely by denying that bid for love and instead be like, no, what's interpret which is you know we could itself think of as a very caring loving gesture in some way. By denying the desire to repeat that the person who comes to the therapist for help no longer repeats in their relationships that matter outside clinical work. Can I ask you something? So, transference is repetition. You know what I mean?

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