ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses the place and the function of transference analysis and explores the parallels between the analyst's concept of human relationships, based on the studies of the analytic process, and those of Martin Buber. Once transference has been truly recognized as the fulcrum, as the central focus of the work of analysis, then the analyst offers to his patient both his knowledge of the dynamics of the psyche and also of himself as a person who is willing to carry his patient's projections. The author shows that the transference analysis that the analyst undertakes together with his patients has really as its goal a shift in the character and quality of a person's relationships from the 'I–It' towards the 'I-Thou' attitude, as these have been defined by Buber. Transference is a lived bridge between the split-off parts of the psyche and between the conscious, the rational and the emotional and the experienced.
