Erotic Transference and Its Relationship to Childhood Seduction |
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| Authors: | Arnold Wm Rachman Robert E Kennedy Margaret A Yard |
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| Institution: | 1. Ph.D. Training , The Institute of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society , New York, New York, USA;2. Theology Department , St. Peters College , Jersey City, New Jersey, USA;3. The Institute of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society , New York, New York, USA |
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| Abstract: | The phenomenon of an erotic transference has long been a difficult, if not mysterious, process within clinical psychoanalysis. Traditionally, the development of an erotic transference has been viewed as a negative clinical event fueled by the analyst's countertransference reaction. A much neglected dimension, the relationship between childhood seduction and the development of an erotic transference, will be introduced and examined. In three clinical cases our data suggest that actual sexual abuse in childhood is a causal factor in the manifestation of an erotic transference in the clinical interaction of an analysis. |
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| Keywords: | erotic transference childhood sexual trauma confusion of tongues theory of trauma enactment |
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