Introjection and Transference 1

Abstract

The productivity of the neurosis is far from being extinguished, but exercises itself in the creation of a peculiar sort of thought-formation, mostly unconscious, to which the name 'transferences' may be given. The sex of the physician is in itself a much-used bridge for the transference. The practical significance and the exceptional position of the kind of introjections that have as their object the person of the physician, and which are discovered in analysis, make it desirable that the term "transferences" given to them by S. Freud be retained. The first "object-love" and the first "object-hate" are, so to speak, the primordial transferences, the roots of every future introjection. Freud's discoveries in the field of psychopathology of everyday life convince that the capacity for projection and displacement is present in normal human beings, and often overshoots the mark.

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