ABSTRACT
The phenomena in psychoanalysis we recognize as transference involve assumptions patients make about their analysts our theory tells us that affectively strong past events trigger dispositions to form expectations of repetitions. Central to Freud's considerations were theories that explained what motivates human behaviour in general and what goes awry in the psychoneuroses and other mental illnesses. Libidinal and aggressive instinctual drives provided an explanation for the symptomatic neuroses and war trauma respectively. The principle of adaptation moved the explanation from an exclusive intra psychic focus to a greater account of interactions with the animate and inanimate environment. Psychoanalytic theory Freudian, Kleinian, Winnicottian, Jungian, Laconian, Sullivanian, ego psychological, Mahlerian, Kohutian, intersubjective, evolutionary, and attachment has tended to privilege another group of affects, intentions, and goals. Beyond the verbal designators that epitomize the needs and motives of the seven systems, world pictures and event stories in each system help analysts to evoke an infant and older child's dyadic and triadic experience.
