The 'Soul' - A Signifier of 'Light' (SHINES) / 'Sound' (SPEAKS) or "Name of the Father"

Such phenomena can also be explained from a different viewpoint. Taking the position of the 'symbolic', the word-like, believing to meet someone again in such intimacy as in a déjà vu produces a strong idealizing and idolizing transference.

And indeed, the transference therein contains something of a 'jamais raconté', as just mentioned! The term transference is understood by the psychoanalyst to be a patient's reference to something of his and of earlier times, or of earlier relationships, which the patient relates to the psychoanalyst.

The patient actualizes and transfers such to the former, though the contents otherwise have nothing more to do with the psychoanalyst than a murmuring (raconté) of 'intimacy' or 'heritage' in a patient's unconscious. It is the psychoanalyst's task to dissolve occurrences transference through therapeutic interpretation.

Subsequently, the patient recognizes and changes his exaggerations and misinterpretations (especially those in his erotic life). Psychoanalytically, and to be precise, you could say, that such a 'gaze-image' experience is a wholly archaic, or 'idealizing - id-izing' transference from a follower to his 'master'. So there is more to this coincidence than a simple transference. It is rather a primal transference which makes the jamais raconté visible.

This term (primal transference) is not common in psychoanalysis. Instead, the expression 'wild transference' is used, meaning a transference outside of the meeting with the analyst. Such transferences usually go unnoticed and aren't discussed. Highly induced situations in yoga, though, attribute such a primal feature to the transference, so that the term 'primal transference' is well-established.

Besides it is easier to speak of 'primal transference' because it is parallel to what Freud calls 'primal repression'. Primal repression is a psychical anti-cathexis, a counter-movement as if it were a second drive. If one of these "primals"¹ is the SPEAKS (the primal transference), then the second is represented by the SHINES (the primal repression). Both are equal movements.

1 The philosopher Fr. V. Weizäcker even plainly, simply and with utmost directness spoke of the primal principles as of the "Primals".