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In Freud earlier papers, he observed that the human mind was capable of detaching from the emotional component of a lived experience, and projecting it onto a substitute object or manifesting as physcial symptom. Freud described this as “splitting of affect” which was primarily used as a line of defense. However, it was only after the case of "Dora" that Freud began to realize that "transference" was not just a type of resistance, but in fact, part of the psychoanalytic process. In the case of “Dora” which may be one of Freud’s most frustrating cases, in so far, that he felt that if he had managed the case more effectively he may have brought about healing for Dora, Freud states: "I did not succeed in mastering the transference in good time" (Freud, 1905, p.160). However, this oversight led to the further development of the concept transference, Freud realised that transference was more than just an obstacle, he stated that it involved the revisiting of old psychical conflicts. Freud wrote:
What are transferences? They are new editions or facsimiles of the impulses and phantasies which are aroused and made conscious during the progress of the analysis; but they have this peculiarity, which is characteristic of their species, that they …show more content…

Positive transference is then further divisible into transference of friendly or affectionate feelings which are admissible to consciousness and transference of prolongations of these feelings into the unconscious. As regards the latter, analysis shows that they invariably go back to erotic sources.... Originally we knew only sexual objects; and psychoanalysis shows us that people who in our real life are merely admired or respected may still be sexual objects for our unconscious. (Freud, 1912, p.

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