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  • Title: Purposive aspects of the erotic transference.
    Author: Covington C.
    Journal: J Anal Psychol; 1996 Jul; 41(3):339-52. PubMed ID: 8830006.
    Abstract:
    This paper illustrates the erotic transference of a male patient towards his female analyst and the pressures and resistances within the transference and counter-transference to act out sexually. The patient's desire to act out sexually is seen both as a form of repetition compulsion within the transference and, in its purposive aspect, as an expression of the patient's need to find a loving breast and an empathic father. The patient's confused sexual identity is seen as a narcissistic defence against the experience of unbeatable frustration in the pre-Oedipal stage. Through internalizing a new primal scene, the patient is able to separate from his past and to work through the Oedipus complex within the transference.
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