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McLaughlin does not like the word “countertransference.” The analyst is a person just like the patient, a person who has just as many fantasies, reactions, and emotions stirred up both in the hour and by the vicissitudes of life. These transferences are evoked not only by what the patient is saying or doing to the analyst, not through projective infusion, but rather because the analyst is herself human, with her own personal history of unresolved and challenging conflicts, and because it is fundamental to being human that one person inevitably evokes something in another if the other is truly engaged: “The analyst’s transferences, like the patient’s, are central to all he is or does and ... determine the psychic reality he lives in and brings to the analytic task ... Transference is a matter of equal rights, both on and behind the couch”

Nancy Chodorow. The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye.