Transference: the unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another. Typically, from patient to analyst who is loved, feared, loathed, as a parent might have been loved, feared and loathed. How can it be any different with blogs – reading them, writing them – and comment box and inter-blog discussions?
Still, I wonder whether there is something that cannot be transfered. An encounter – a singularity that will not refuse even the phantasmic desires that are projected upon it: yes, I will dream of that, instead. How foolish! As if there were anything other than phantasms, repeated and revisited relationships of the past.
Unless there is a past before the past, and a repetition that would return as the refusal of phantasies, even as it elicits them. Refusal: blog without words, without image. Withdrawn blog interlaced with all blogs; condition, uncondition for all that is written and shared.
Counter-transference: the psychoanalyst projects phantasies upon the patient. But I dream instead of the counter-transference of the absolute past. – ‘Who are you?’ – ‘The one who refuses transference.’ – ‘Who are you?’ – ‘The one whose counter-transference caused you to be born.’
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