ON THE PHYSICS AND PSYCHOLOGY OF THE TRANSFERENCE AS AN INTERACTIVE FIELD

An analyst and a physicist combine their disciplines in studying the t ransference as an interactive held. Through a description of the histo ry and evolution of the therapeutic relationship as one moving from as ymmetry to symmetry, from reductive causal interaction to acausal, syn chronistic expression of meaning, we describe four levels of interacti on. To unpack the notion of interactive field we describe the physics of local, causal, classical fields and directly connect them to the th erapeutic encounter of the first two levels. The second two levels req uire discussion of nonlocal, acausal, quantum fields. In this connecti on, the subtle body and joint active imagination provide a physiologic al and symbolic experience of the interactive field. Fundamental quest ions and challenges arise from this study regarding the relationship b etween analyst and analysand and psyche and soma. This continues and d eepens the hoped for interplay between physics and depth psychology es poused by Jung, Pauli, Meier, and von Franz.