The negotiation about who I am is subject to transference, counter-tranference dynamics in all kinds of authority relations, even as they go unremarked and uninterpreted. There is transference to a role as well as to a person. A priest is an obvious example. In certain cultures we even call him Father. I remember consulting to a religious order and an aged nun calling me Father, - I must have looked like a young priest to her, otherwise what was I doing staying in the guest room in the convent. I could feel my hand rising as if in blessing.