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This paradoxical nature of transference, as both an obstacle to the treatment and that which drives the treatment forward, perhaps helps to explain why there are so many different and opposing views of transference in psychoanalytic theory today.
Lacan's thinking about transference goes through several stages. His first work to deal with the subject in any detail is '''An Intervention on the Transference'','<ref>Lacan, 1951</ref> in which he describes the transference in dialectical terms borrowed from Hegel. He criticises ego-psychology for defming the transference in terms of [[affectsaffect]]s; "Transference does not refer to any mysterious property of affect, and even when it reveals itself under the appearance of emotion, it only acquires meaning by virtue of the dialectical moment in which it is produced."<ref>Ec, 225</ref>
In other words, Lacan argues that although transference often manifests itself in the guise of particularly strong affects, such as [[love]] and hate, it does not consist of such emotions but in the structure of an intersubjective relationship.
