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Default Mar 19, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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I later on told him about a dream that was about a man who loved another man who didn't love him back because he wasn't homosexual like the other man. Discussing the dream, my T told me that this was a VERY special reason for the attraction and love to not be reciprocated, a VERY special reason, and asked me if I understood what he meant. I said yes, and thought he meant that my love would be reciprocated if he had not been my therapist.
I am not following the logic in the story, sorry. I have reread the passage several times but still.

To me, if I were (counterfactually) a homosexual and if I told someone about my dream in which a homosexual's love was not reciprocated (solely) because their love object wasn't themselves a homosexual, AND that someone told me, making an emphasis, that such was a VERY special reason for not reciprocating love, AND I wanted to believe that that someone, under a different set of circumstances, would have been attracted to me, I would have inferred that they meant that they would have been attracted to me had they not been straight, not had they not been my service provider. I think this is all about the orientation and not the client-provider relationship.

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Default Apr 05, 2024 at 09:52 PM
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My analyst just finished his training in psychoanalysis. He's wonderful ...very thoughtful. He seems to be able to "see inside my head".
We've had rough times but I'm secure in our therapeutic relationship. I still love him and he's told me the same. (not physical) I think we love each others minds.

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