So what happened? It is necessary to briefly evoke an analytic session that became famous
in the history of psychoanalysis. So, the first occasion where Freud encountered the love
phenomenon occurred through transference. One of his female patients would come to see
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him. She follows what Freud calls the “fundamental rule” – that to say the “free association”.
So she would say out loud whatever came to mind. Freud took interest in her case. She even
became the center of Freud’s interest. After all, he was still quite young, about 40 years old
– let's say 40 is still quite young.