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Originally Posted by koru_kiwi
yup! that was me...  a big'o cluster f&*k of both erotic and maternal transference chaos. yippy! 
from what i have come to understand about developmental truama, erotic transference is an expression of the unmet affect regulation from the mother to the infant/child and later in life that unmet need for connection,regulation, and safety can be expressed as erotic longings. so ET is very much inter-wound with maternal/paternal transference. |
Yup. You got it. In the old-fashioned terminology it's called "Oedipal complex", which I don't have any problem using, but it has long become such a dirty term that when one uses it they get crucified
To me it makes no difference how we choose to call it if we are talking about the same thing.