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In the psychoanalytic treatments of psychotic or borderline patients, the psychoanalyst has to face highly archaic conditions with intense bodily sensations both within the patient and themselves, bodily sensations that are not integrated in the psyche. These treatments need a long time to work through what the author calls the bodily transference, that is taking into account these bodily sensations as actual sensations and not only in their symbolic significance, in order to help the patient integrate them into his/her psyche and inhabit his/her own body. This working through must precede the interpretation of the transference onto the psychoanalyst in its classical meaning.