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.
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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.

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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

23:13 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