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THE EROTIC TRANSFERENCE: DREAM OR DELUSION?
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| Author | De, Franco |
| Abstract | The erotic transference can be seen as the Janus face of clinical work in psychoanalysis: it may either arise out of the positive emotions necessary for the building of new shared realities, or be fueled by falsified and distorted constructions. In the former case, the erotic transference expresses the capacity to anticipate, or “dream, ” the emotional relation-ship with the object—which is why Freud valued its transformative aspect as one of the “forces impelling [the patient] to... make changes”—whereas in the latter it is equivalent to a flight from psychic reality and may be imperceptibly transformed into an actual delusion. T his contribution seeks to illustrate the various clinical forms of the erotic transference and the different ways of treating them. It is no simple matter to distinguish between the mental states that emerge in the course of the erotic transference, nor is it easy to tell them apart from other analytic phenomena, for this type of transference seems to be not so much an isolated clinical fact as in effect a frontier region contiguous with many kinds of clinical experience. The erotic transference is observed in a number of psychopathological syndromes, such as the neu-roses (in particular, hysteria), depression, borderline states, and even psychosis. Two types of clinical situation can be distinguished. The first corre-sponds to an analyzable transference potentially capable of transforma-tion, and resembles a state of dreaming reminiscent of an ideal infantile love. The second, which is malignant in nature and resembles a drugged or delusional state, proves much more difficult to treat. I will present |
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