ABSTRACT
The term illusions spring from projections arising out of the repressed unconscious, the anima, and also indirectly from the animus-anima conjunction. Repressed elements are particularly important in stabilizing the illusions. It will be evident that fixed counter-transference illusions must feature most in the training of analysts. In training, analytic ideas are formulated, in relation to the candidate's transference to his analyst and supervisor, and these enter into the trainee's counter-transference to his patient. Starting from a critical study of Jung's formulations, attempts have been made and are continuing to be made by several analysts to supplement his conceptions and to describe practice in relation to their own thinking. The author want to suggest that one function of clinical and theoretical discussions and writing papers is to continue the processes that began in training when counter-transference processes were being discovered, often for the first time. This idea introduces the syntonic counter-transference.
