Transference love and love in real life

This paper discusses transference love, its place among other transference reactions, and other forms of love. It attempts to resolve two questions: (1) whether transference love is essentially similar to love in real life or is fundamentally different and (2) whether if it is different, it can be seen as a transitory form of love that will enable the analysand to transfer to a new object significantly better than he or she would have been able to had psychoanalysis not interfered. Also examined are the consequences of a love relationship between the analyst and the analysand, the ramifications of Freud's metaphor the "economics of love," and transference love and sublimation.