ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a discussion of the place and the function of transference analysis, and with the exploration of the parallels between the analyst's concept of human relationships—based as it is on the studies of the analytical process—and those of Martin Buber. Jung, in his paper entitled 'The therapeutic value of abreaction', which he published in the British journal of psychology in 1921 and discusses the origin and the function of transference in analysis. The transference phenomenon is an inevitable feature of every thorough analysis, for it is imperative that the doctor should get into the closest possible touch with the patient's line of psychological development. When 'transference' rather than 'true' relationship predominates then the symbolic function has most likely remained immature. The very context and circumstances of analysis inevitably evoke these fundamental anxieties—which the history of the patient may have made too overwhelming and unbearable for him to contain.
