TY - JOUR A1 - Greenberg, Jay R. T1 - >Dirty,< >Clean,< and In-Between – Rolling with Uncertainty in Homoerotic Countertransference. Reply to Commentaries T2 - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 01 (1991), pp. 052-073. N2 - The psychoanalytic situation provides many opportunities for people to observe their analysts closely. These observations are inevitably woven into the fabric of patients’ transference experience. Because the observations can be uncomfortable for the analyst, there is a constant temptation to ignore or deny the plausibility of patients’ perceptions. They can be, and often are, quickly reinterpreted as derivatives of sexual or aggressive urges. Psychoanalytic drive theory, with its emphasis on impulse rather than observation as the force behind transference experience, can encourage counter-transferential disclaimers and lead to blind spots. Some technical suggestions are offered to avoid this tendency and are based on a relational understanding of the nature of transference. Y1 - 1991 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32302 ER -