ABSTRACT
This chapter will propose that transgression is integral to curiosity and questioning in creative development. By transgression, I mean the necessary act of going somewhere that previously seemed off limits. Transgression, in the way I use it here, means to denote a pushing beyond the accepted norms, a stepping outside the expected—going past known boundaries. In the therapeutic context, I will suggest that the therapist and the analysand need to find themselves in a different place. From this, I will suggest that psychotherapy should be considered as a mutually transforming process: the analytic couple are thought of in terms of the transformational couple. This classification also applies, of course, to the mother and child and between lovers. The significance of this for the erotic transference-countertransference matrix is that the erotic, by its very nature, will produce the greatest possibilities for transgression.
