TRANSFERENCE AND TELE VIEWED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THERAPY AND TRAINING

Abstract

Moreno's Transference, Countertransference, and Tele..." poses many interesting problems that cross disciplines from psychoanalysis to social psychology. Attention here will be directed to an examination of the relationship between transference and tele. That between transference and counter-transference can better be approached within the formal framework of psychoanalysis. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRANSFERENCE AND TELE As Moreno points out, transference and tele both are phenomena that occur in interpersonal situations. Both significantly effect the quality of interaction. Transference produces distortions in interpersonal relationships, with the distortion being greater the more pronounced the transference. Tele, on the other hand, refers to the valid or reality-based aspects of interpersonal relationships. The rule here is that the more adequate the interpersonal relationship, the greater the probability that its components are based on tele. Since a relationship based entirely on transference would contain no tele factors and one entirely on tele no transference, these two concepts appear to refer to extremes of a single continuum, with transference representing distorted and tele accurate, valid social perceptions. While transference and tele can be treated as representing the end points of a single dimension, the assumption on which the view developed here is based is that they constitute two dimension