Abstract

This chapter describes the logical consequences of a new semantics of transference love, that is, a different way from the traditional one of assigning it a meaning within the analytic relationship. It explains the new semantics of transference love, regardless of the severity of pathology, or even age of the patient – as what is at play is the ‘molecular’ processes of thinking. The chapter discusses the Freudian concept of transference love as theorized in the classic 1915 paper and emphasizes the role that some ideological issues play in it. In Freud the concept of so-called transference love has always lived in an area of ambiguity. In contemporary psychoanalysis the attitude of suspicion towards transference love is increasingly giving way to the idea that it is in fact not a manner of avoiding suffering and thinking, but of knowing the other in the deepest possible way and as a quest for acceptance.

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