SOME COMMENTS TO THE TRICHOTOMY, TELE-TRANSFERENCE-EMPATHY

Abstract

Empathy, as defined by Lipps, is a "one-way" feeling into the private world of another ego and as such a psychological phenomenon; it satisfies the needs Of the psychologist. But it does not take care of the "two-way" and multiple feeling into each other's private worlds of several individuals and the socioemotional structures resulting from them. This is, however, a process of greatest importance to sociologists and sociometrists. Parallel with this Freud developed the concept of transference, which signifies the unconscious projection of fancied experiences upon the person of the physician.