ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses the place and the function of transference analysis and explores the parallels between the analysts concept of human relationships, based on the studies of the analytic process, and those of Martin Buber. The concept of transference as projection seems to have been accepted from early on by both Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung. Adjoining the development of transference analysis is the whole topic of the analyst’s countertransference— that is, the analyst’s feelings in relation to the patient. Once transference has been truly recognized as the fulcrum, as the central focus of the work of analysis, then the analyst offers to his patient both his knowledge of the dynamics of the psyche. Davidson suggests that the transference/countertrans-ference relationship between patient and analyst is in fact an enactment, of the unconscious drama in which the patient has been held prisoner.
