ABSTRACT
Jung, in his writings upon the transference, lays special emphasis upon the part played by the personality of the analyst in any analysis. This was first expressed when he was a psychoanalyst; he then proposed that all analysts should undergo a training analysis, and he has since stressed it over and over again. It is Jung's thesis that there is a therapeutic content in the analyst's personality. Closely related to the discussion of whether the transference is 'natural' or 'artificial' is the question of how it is related to something broadly termed 'life', by which is usually meant all the patient's everyday activities which get related to what is 'natural'. Jung has pointed out that the content of some projections can be dissolved, but that finally the projected archetypal images cannot; they only become detached from the person of the analyst. The interrelation of projection and perception is therefore a useful indicator of progression and regression of the ego.
