Episode 6 – Transference
What is transference, really? Is it a bond, a projection, a repetition — or something more structural?
In this episode, Neil Gorman and Isolda Alvarez explore transference from a Lacanian orientation: the analyst as function rather than person, the subject supposed to know, unconscious certainty, and the role of jouissance in shaping how we relate to others. Through clinical examples — including fighting as a mode of relating and the “test” of the analyst — they discuss how repetition encounters something new in analysis, creating the possibility for change.
They also begin circling a provocative question to be taken up next time: Is being a psychoanalyst actually easier than people think?
Watch out for that certainty.
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The Article Neil referred to, about each analyst being the product of their own cure was:
The Rhinoceros and the Desire of the Analyst, by Bruno de Halleux, in Psychoanalytical Notebooks 36.
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The Article Neil referred to, about each analyst being the product of their own cure was:
The Rhinoceros and the Desire of the Analyst, by Bruno de Halleux, in Psychoanalytical Notebooks 36.
01:18 Why Talk Transference
01:54 Defining Transference Lacanian
03:48 Engine and Obstacle
05:04 Analyst Function Not Person
05:44 Bond Versus Transference
09:03 Unconscious and Supposed Know
11:05 Jouissance Gaze and Voice
14:04 Reading the Analyst Role
18:26 Case Example Fighting
22:12 Repetition Meets New Response
23:13 Unthought Knowns
26:01 Certainty Becomes Suffering
27:06 Finding the Hidden Knowledge
27:47 Transference Reveals the Script
29:17 Analyst Desire and Curiosity
30:27 Patients Testing the Analyst
33:14 Analyst as Enigma Function
34:33 Weed Case and Nonjudgment
37:56 Analyst Subjectivity and Cure
41:48 Questioning Certainties and Jouissance
44:36 Next Episode and Closing