ABSTRACT
In the psychoanalytic relationship observe transference as a dramatization of the patient's illusions and thus as a potential way to find the reality of his true feelings through illusions. In the psychoanalytic relationship this area of experiencing is different from the usual everyday reality. In the transference illusion, which also includes an illusion of timelessness, will be found the sameness of experience and contact with the authentic feelings that are the bearers of its subjective significance. A developmental illusion brings an experience into the analytic situation in which some important aspect from the developmental interaction between the child and the parent becomes actualized, not as a concrete reality, nor as an elaborated fantasy, but only on the symbolic level of illusion. The need for a shared experience, held up by the illusion, will be present throughout life as a striving for discovery and maintenance of meaningfulness and authenticity of self-experience.
