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KMID : 0385320050160010008
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2005 Volume.16 No. 1 p.8 ~ p.12
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Erotic Transference
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Kim Hyun-Woo
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Abstract
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The author has reviewed some clinical aspects of erotic transference because, as a positive transference, it seemed more difficult to manage than negative transference. Erotic transference included a mixture of tender, erotic, and sexual feelings of a patient for his or her analyst or therapist. Historically it was first described as a positive transference by Freud who also expressed it as transference love. But after the first World War he thought the aggressive drive had to be considered to understand the human psychic phenomenon, and he applied this opinion to erotic transference. It meant that erotic transference might be changed to hostility and an aggressive nature and sometimes erotic and hostility transference existed at the same time. Erotic transference usually developed gradually and with considerable shame and embarrassment. Sexual longings for the therapist were often experienced as ego-dystonic, meaning that the patient was aware that fulfillment of these wishes would be inappropriate. And the author agrees that in many cases dependent need rather than sexual demands originating from the preoedipal period underlie erotic expression. Also, the author emphasized the possibilities of homosexual erotic experience. Another point was eroticized transference, which might be defined as the "intense erotic component which begins from the very early therapeutic stage". In that situation the patients were not embarrassed or shamed by their wishes. Erotized transference might be understood as hostility and destructiveness rather than extreme sexual expressions. As for dreams, the author believes that dreams are important tools for management of erotic transference and thorough examination of countertransference feelings might be necessary for its therapeutic management. About the debate of ’transference love and real love’ the author agrees that "love experience in one’s analysis is basically similar to the love experience outside the analysis. But the feelings are just as real, though the actions are different."
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KEYWORD
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Erotic transference, Positive transference, Transference love, Dream
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