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Published on: July 17, 2021
TRANSFERENCE BEFORE TRANSFERENCE
1Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (S.P.I.) and an Adjunct Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
Abstract:
This paper is predominantly a clinical presentation that describes the transmigration of one patient's transference to another, with the analyst functioning as a sort of transponder. It involves an apparently accidental episode in which there was an unconscious intersection between two patients. The author's aim is to show how transference from one case may affect transference in another, a phenomenon the author calls transference before transference. The author believes that this idea may serve as a tool for understanding the unconscious work that takes place in the clinical situation. In a clinical example, the analyst finds himself caught up in an enactment involving two patients in which he becomes the medium of what happens in session.
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