ABSTRACT
The discovery of transference is one of the most consequential made in the history of psychotherapy. Freud found in 1901, when analyzing Dora, that the patient had transferred her attitudes towards her infantile love objects to the physician. The physician had taken the place of father and mother and also the place of the actual love object. The emotions had been transferred to him. These emotions were the emotions of love, in its full sense, and of hate. We speak of positive and negative transference. He discovered further that the transference develops in psychoanalysis without any display on the part of the physician. The emotions liberated by the psychoanalytic process of free association have to find an object and take the object at hand, the analyst. If the analyst remains passive, does not display his own opinions and personality, the more apt he will be to receive transference.
