ABSTRACT
The transference is the unconscious response with which the neurotic patient reacts toward persons of his environment and specifically toward the personality of the psychoanalyst. This response represents a replacement for early affectional memories, most particularly for the early impressions that cluster about the parent. Nowhere is the individual's expression dependable in his relation to others because of this disparate mood that is incited at the very origin of his social relationships. In this situation, according to people's group studies in analysis, people's psychological concepts and intellectualisations represent replacements for the functional interrelationships natural to the individuals of the species. An analysis of the social mood cannot, of course, be reached by a discussion of its rationalisations. From a phyletic or group basis of analysis, then, conceptual questions regarding subjective data, whether the questions be practical or theoretical, are necessarily the expression of social image, and these images in turn necessarily arise from the background of a disparate social mood.
