ABSTRACT
Tucked away among pieces of homely advice on the placing of the furniture and the fixing of the fee comes Freud’s account of the transference—the ‘Papers on technique’. 1 Transference is a concept that ostensibly relates to the practice of psychoanalysis, rather than the theory. But in fact, transference has a pivotal place in the theory, and cannot be contained to the area of practice. It is a relation with ontological as well as epistemological consequences.
