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==definition==
In [[psychoanalysis]], [[transference]] (''transfert'') refers to the [[process]] by which [[affect]] and [[desire]] originally associated with one person, such as a parent or sibling, are [[unconscious]]ly shifted to another person, especially to the [[analyst]].<ref>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=transference</ref>
==Dictionary==
The actualization of unconscious wishes during psychoanalytic treatment.
Prototypes, memories and desires are transferred by projection onto the analyst, who is often identified with an important or significant figure fromt he patient's childhood.
The term is also used more generally to refer to all aspects of the patient's relationship with the analyst.
The analyst's unconscious reactions to the patient - and to the transference itself - are described as the 'counter-transference'.
Freud initially took the view that transference was a displacement of existing affects or emotional charges, and that it was a facsimile of old emotions or something to be analyzed like any other symptom.
The transference was an obstacle because it induced repetitions and blocked the emergence of new free associations.
In his account of the 'Dora' case, Freud concluded that his inability to complete the analysis was the result of his failure to analyze the transference.<ref>1905C</ref>
Later Freud still views trasnference as an obstacle to analysis but also accepts that without it the actualization of repressed emotions would be impossible.
Lacan initially refers to trasnference as a dialectic of identifications; in later formulations, it is said to be associated with the fantasy of the 'subject supposed to know."<ref>1951a, 1977</ref>
The possession of knowledge is, that is, ascribed by the analysand to an other who can understand his or her innermost thoughts.
According to Lacan, any pedagogic relationship is underpinned by a similar fantasy.
==Transference and Freud==
