On Transference
(S1E006)
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
- 00:25 Podcast Kickoff
- 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 2
- 3:13 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
