Fixation (psychology) - Fixation, Transference and Cure

Fixation, Transference and Cure

In the course of analysis, 'a new fixation is thereby established...The original fixation has become a transference fixation'; but the two fixations may be very different in nature. 'Suppose we succeeded in bringing a case to a favourable conclusion by setting up and then resolving a strong father-transference to the doctor. It would not be correct to conclude that the patient had suffered previously from a similar unconscious attachment of his libido to his father': the original fixation may have been quite different from a father-complex, and 'the patient's libido was directed to it from other positions'.