At other times, such as the moment when he sought to reassure Freud of his orthodoxy (CW 16: par. 358), he is very keen to stand up and be counted as a reputable psychoanalyst who has fully understood the centrality of the idea of transference as the ‘alpha and omega of analysis’; Freud apparently told him that he had ‘grasped the main thing’ (see Perry 1997: 141–163; Samuels 1985: 182–183 for a full discussion of this ambivalence of Jung’s).
