transference

Eli feels a strong connection to Noah, sometimes feeling what he feels, but as a man of science, he frames it as “some extreme case of transference-counter transference.”

The pendulum, Freud warned, can easily swing back to “negative” transference, even outright hostility, if the patient’s anxieties are brought into awareness without the assurance that the therapist has the goodwill and capacity to see the process through.

Sigmund Freud warned that the “positive transference” that comes at the start of therapy can be short-lived.

If Kamala Harris is to bring America back to reality, she must make use of the positive transference currently on offer to her and declare herself the person to help all struggling Americans.

The two main candidates who had been running for president—Biden and Trump—both proved to be severely compromised transference figures.