ABSTRACT
Freud understood that it was an arduous business for the analyst to accept fully the task of taking on such transferences and to work within them while at the same time retaining a capacity to be separate. A second feature of an emotional storm is that its embodiment shows the boundary between what strikes us as the intrapsychic and the interactional realm to be indeterminate for much of the time, in what Britton has called “the ordinary muddle of clinical practice”. All of the foregoing discussion conforms closely with what we could call the standard model of psychoanalysis, focusing as it does on the difficulty for the analyst in being subjected to the inevitable and ubiquitous forces that we understand as transference. Money-Kyrle described how he had moved from thinking of how the patient in analysis was representing the internal parental couple to considering the multitude of ways in which they seemed unconsciously driven to misrepresent the object relation.
