ABSTRACT
A person's innate libidinal and aggressive object-related phantasies create states of attachment that are often in conflict. These internal experiences are continually frustrated and gratified by constitution, environment, and evolving internal object-relationships. This leads to a further complexity of phantasies and affect states that then fuel or constrict the mental matrix once again. People relate to one another through these highly idiosyncratic core phantasy patterns. The particular and unique unfolding of this intrapsychic and interpersonal connecting makes for a special fingerprint in the analytic setting. Each patient is unique; each transference is new and specialized. The transference phenomenon is a constant in the human experience (Bird, 1972) and the psychoanalytic method is dedicated to the exploration and understanding of this phenomenon by the use of interpretation.
