ABSTRACT
In the brief essay that follows, I will address a class of transferential and countertransferential experience that receives little attention in the Relational psychoanalytic literature. I am referring to the emotional reactions one experiences when engaging a person whose political identity and values clash with one’s own. I will highlight the unique difficulties that such transferential matrices create and will argue that the technical stances adopted to address such conflicts are not likely to resolve these difficulties in treatment.1
