The analyst’s experience of being a transference object: An elusive form of countertransference to the psychoanalytic method?

Psychoanalysts are always in a relationship not only with their patients but also with the particular way or method that we engage in a relationship as a psychoanalyst. While there are many elements of the analyst’s object relationship to method, I will focus on one that is at the heart of method-the analyst’s reactions not only to being a particular kind of transference object but also to the fact of being a transference object. I chose this topic since its centrality to method makes it difcult to think about it.