Abstract
Abstract This paper is a response to Karen Maroda's “On Homoeroticism, Erotic Countertransference, and the Postmodern View of Life.” One of the paradigmatic changes that has developed, particularly in contemporary psychoanalytic theory, is the use of the analyst's counter-transference in treatment. Countertransference or the analyst's subjectivity is used to inform an interpretation or an insightful response to the patient. Contemporary psychoanalytic literature is currently focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of self-disclosing with many authors determining that some analysts are better able to work with self-disclosure than others. The question of why erotic transference/counter-transference develops between a patient and an analyst, and why they don't, is of particular theoretical interest. The development of a patient's transference cannot be separated from the development of the therapist's countertransference-both are mutually constructed by patient and analyst. Transference and countertransference are not linear. They develop together and are indistinguishable from the whole. The author goes on to further present clinical material of her work with three women patients.
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