Basic Characteristics
Transference neurosis can be distinguished from other kinds of transference because:
- It is very vivid and it rekindles the infantile neurosis.
- It is generated by the feelings of frustration that the analysand inevitably experiences during sessions, since the analyst does not fulfill the analysand’s longings.
- In transference neurosis the symptoms are not stable, but they are transformed.
- Regression and repetition play a key role in the creation of transference neurosis.
- Transference neurosis reveals the particular meanings that the analysand has given to current infantile relationships and events, which generate internal conflicts between wishes and particular defenses formed to strive against them. These meanings are united and create several transference patterns.
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