ABSTRACT
Common clusters of ideas in the interviews of those inclining to a symmetric field were: undifferentiation, participation mystique, emergence, moments of intensity and meaning or turning points, and embodied countertransference, leading on to C. G. Jung, psychoid, and synchronicity. Embodiment was generally found to be more important for the Jungians than the psychoanalysts. The Jungian interviewees generally approach embodied countertransference as essential to analytic work, and two of the psychoanalysts were clearly familiar with embodied countertransference. S2(AP) mentioned Jung’s reference to true imagination, in relation to interpreting, dreams and active imagination, as informing both his own emerging understanding of his patients and their developing sense of self. The ways in which they described the transference were consistent with an asymmetric model but they also gave a sense of being alongside their patients in a relational way.
