ABSTRACT
Transference is likely to set in even before the first session, as the patient imagines who the analyst may be. Often, transference motivates the choice of analyst—and this is just as well, because it is on the basis of the transference that treatment works. In the transference, an early position of the patient reappears taking one of Freud’s three forms of identification. If the first type of transference, being a return to past identifications and relations, is essentially biographical, then the second type of transference is structural as it reflects structure of the patient’s unconscious. Triggering transference by means of taking an enigmatic position, the analyst positions herself as someone whose desire is unclear. Analysts embroider their work by means of positive transference. The dialectic of truth encourages positive transference, as said, in the form of love of someone who knows more about the patient than she or he himself, and who will not let the latter relinquish their truth.
