ABSTRACT
There is no analysis if the Other is not an Other who I love (with the corollary, whom I hate), through the good offices of ‘that man/that woman without qualities’ who is my analyst.
(Kristeva 1983:14)
The erotic transference and countertransference as it manifests itself in the area in between the female therapist and male client is the main topic of this book. It will be argued that pictures which are viewed in the area in-between client and therapist may sometimes lure the viewers into a deeper relationship. Through the imagery and the medium of the gaze, they are drawn to each other. Thus the book is centrally about desire-countertransference and transference desire and desire embodied in artworks.
