ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that transgression is integral to curiosity and questioning in creative development. In the therapeutic context, it suggests that the therapist and the analysand need to find themselves in a different place. The chapter suggests that psychotherapy should be considered as a mutually transforming process: the analytic couples are thought of in terms of the transformational couple. This classification also applies, of course, to the mother and child and between lovers. A distinction needs to be made between healthy and destructive transgression. The distinction between common and transformational knowledge is particularly relevant to the erotic transference-countertransference matrix. The psychoanalytic process encourages curiosity and inquiry. The erotic in psychotherapy is certainly destructive, if the therapist is tempted to stop treating the material as symbolic, and decides instead to act on his or her feelings by trying to develop a fully-fledged sexual relationship with the patient.
