ABSTRACT
A question which frequently arises in psycho-analytical discussions on technical themes is whether transference is brought about by the patient alone, or whether the behaviour of the analyst may have a part in it too. The phenomenon of transference can best be demonstrated if its object is an inanimate, lifeless thing, e.g. the door which was banged because the cause of our anger was behind it. The danger of being stuck fast in a counter-transference is one of the arguments in favour of the demand that at least one part of each control analysis shall be conducted by some analyst (or better by some analysts) other than the training analyst. Looked at from this point of view the analytical situation is the result of an interplay between the patient's transference and the analyst's counter-transference, complicated by the reactions released in each by the other's transference on to him.
