Examinations Of The Types of Transference
In Christian circles there is an understanding that inspirational compunctions, modalities and perspective states can be transferred from one individual to another. Even desires mental and emotional states can be integrated into another individuals being. Transference is not a new concept it has existed for over hundreds of years. Even in the Psychoanalytic field there have been concepts that have to do with transference. It was Freud that used the concept of "Displaceable Energies" in his research as far back as 1888.
Connections such as transference were conceptualized along lines drawn by Charcot's school, and the concept of auto-suggestion that they used to explain the inherent suggestibility of a hysteric. In developing this 1895 model of transference, Freud strove to tame disquieting concerns about the epistemologic status of hysteria and hypnosis. It is the epistemologic anxiety created by accusations of iatrogenic suggestion as much as the sexual anxiety Szasz pointed to that prodded Freud to focus exclusively on the intrapsychic. It also may be the legacy of this epistemologic anxiety that accounts for the fact that until recently, psychoanalytic theoreticians have been hesitant to explore the effect that the real person of the analyst might have on the manifestations of transference ( See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7824382) according to the U.S. National Library Of Medicine National Institute of Health.
Transference is the moving of one state from one place to another or from one person to another. The ancients believe that transference can be associated with spiritual entities as well as spiritual energies. Even when their is transference from person to person there may be a significant degree of mental and spiritual energy utilized to complete such a feat.
Transference has been understood in one way or another for a very long time and yet is becoming more prominent in both the church world and the psychological world as well. According to David Gordan Bain there are 7 types of transference (Psychological) such as:
1. A 'Mother-Oedipal Complex': Subconsciously falling in love or being attracted to someone who reminds us of our mother;
2. A 'Counter-Mother-Oedipal Complex': Subconsciously falling in love or being attracted to someone who we view as being 'opposite' to our mother;
3. A 'Father Oedipal Complex': Subconsciously falling in love or being attracted to someone who reminds us of our father;
4. A 'Counter-Father-Oedipal Complex': Subconsciously falling in love or being attracted to someone who we view as 'opposite' to our father;
5. A 'Mixed Oedipal and/or Counter-Oedipal Complex': Subconsciously falling in love or being attracted to someone who reminds us of some combination of our mother, father, and/or their opposites;
6. A 'Narcissistic Transference Complex': Falling in love or being attracted to someone who reminds us of ourselves, either in the present, or in the past, or as we wish to be in the future;
7. 'A Counter Narcissistic Transference Complex': Falling in love or being attracted to someone who we view as being 'opposite' to ourselves (which is likely our subconscious way of saying that there is a part of ourselves that we wish to 'un-bury' and bring alive in our active conscious present;
Mr. Bain continues by saying, "There are also possible sister or brother, grandfather or grandmother, friend, teacher, stranger 'transference complexes'...We can also turn the 'positive, love transferences' listed above upside down, and/or inside out -- and talk about the possible and/or actual 'negative transference dynamics' attached to each of these different transference relationships."
Of course these 7 types of transference are intertwined with within the secular psychological system of transference having to do with emotional transference. In Essencology we would call these "Emotional Transference" Because transference has been associated with psychological processes for a very long time and ministers, pastors etc have very seldom studied this phenomenon in scripture or classic psychology the church is not a leading authority on this subject and those subjects like it. In my continued studies I have found that transference can be divided into the following categories:
1. Emotional Transference
2. Intellectual Transference
3. Behavioral Transference
4. Reverse Transference
5. Spiritual Transference
6. Sexual Transformative Transference
7. Phusiological Imprinting Transference
8. Qualitative Realignment Transference
9. Pneumatological Transference
RRG is continually finding new interesting theories that may or may not uncover new types of new modalities of transference. Transference is much more comprehensive than even the psychological field suspects. This article is a part of a much more extensive work on the subject of transference.
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