As consciousness grows, transference comes to light and loses its power to determine our present life as once it did. Then, as Freud says: “Transference the obstacle becomes transference the ally.” Freud, speaking of transference in therapy, said that not working with transference is like successfully summoning a spirit from the dead and not asking it a question. In working through transference, we separate projections from reality, and we individualize persons rather than seeing them as facsimiles or archetypes. In our work on transference, we attempt to undo the adhesions between past and present.