Regardless of the length of psychoanalytic therapy, traces of our childhood
needs and traumas will never be completely erased. Infantile confl icts may
not be fully resolved, even though many aspects of transference are worked
through with a therapist. We may need to struggle at times throughout our life
with feelings that we project onto others as well as with unrealistic demands
that we expect others to fulfi ll. In this sense we experience transference with
many people, and our past is always a vital part of the person we are presently
becoming