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sidony said:

I remember reading that you said erotic transference is necessary to therapy. I'm kind of curious about that. I don't think I have any erotic feelings towards my T. I totally love him, but I've also completely cast him in a father-figure role.

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That's erotic transference right there. :-) Erotic transference is not limited to sexual feelings, but also encompasses feelings of love as well as parent feelings. It can also occur between female T/female patient and male T/male patient. If you really go old school on the erotic transference stuff and related it to Freud, even the parent/child stuff has a sexual component to it, i.e. the Oedipal stage.

Erotic transference includes love-- real love feelings. The goal is for that transformation to occur-- for you to take that love for your T and use it elsewhere. It is not limited to only sexual feelings, although it often includes them.