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The innermost heart is the visiting-room of the mind, attesting a rhetorical organisation of thought, and may be the holder of a deep conviction. When brought into play in the analytic situation, it encounters the transference, which performs the dual function of representing otherness and tolerating the predominance of a pre-established form of relationship. The countertransference plays a part in the whole process and runs the risk of being constituted as a demand when only a response is expected. The technological applications of social networking reveal the unconscious desire to proclaim to the whole world what the innermost heart claimed to be keeping to itself.