ABSTRACT
“Transference phenomena are part of every therapy, and indeed of everyday life. The well-prepared, intelligent student suffering from examination fear ascribes to the authority figure, his professor, the wish to let him fail regardless of whether the examiner is a mean, overly demanding, or a benign person who would like to see the student pass and become a colleague. The student transfers upon his teachers the Oedipal fantasy he had as a little boy: that his father would not allow him to grow up and become an equal” (Erika Fromm, 1968, p. 77). Between the ages of 3 and 6, nearly every little girl has the normal Oedipal wish that her father take the initiative and have a sexual relationship with her. When a patient has not resolved this Oedipal wish in childhood, it keeps throbbing in her unconscious. Later, she transfers this wish to a father figure, the hypnotherapist. She wishes to be seduced by the hypnotist and unconsciously she may revenge herself on him for not having seduced her. She blames the seductive wish on the hypnotist, transferring to him the unfulfilled hope she had with regard to her father (p. 79).
