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Summary
Writers use narrative voice and grammatical choices to influence their imagined readers, mirroring psychoanalytic transference. This study explores how literary form and content reveal the writer's transference imago.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Literary Studies
- Psychoanalysis
Background:
- The concept of the transference imago is fundamental in psychoanalysis.
- Writers create narratives for an imagined reader, their transference imago.
- Literary techniques may reflect psychological processes.