A BASIC LEVEL OF TRANSFERENCE - TOWARDS A SYSTEMIC VIEW ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SITUATION

Recent conceptualizations of the analytic situation recur increasingly to its interactional aspects. Exploring the development of the analytic relationship it is shown how some aspects of the analyst like his personality, his ego-syntonic belief-systems and his concepts concerning the analytic process widely determine what is transfered by the patient. Often the analyst is involved into this actualized transference in a very subtle way by these aspects of himself which become part of the transference and cannot be easily confronted because of their ego-syntonic nature. On a latent level these enactements show the tendency to build up an unconscious set of rules for the therapeutic communication which gains a relative autonomy with respect to the conscious goals of the analyst. This system of an enduring interactional structure may determine the transference and countertransference as well as the analytic process like an autopoietic system that generates itself in a recursive process. Therapeutic and theoretical aspects are discussed.