An analysis of remote therapy sessions with a pre-adolescent girl shows the unique forms transference takes in this specific treatment format. By making the sensorial aspect of the transference–counter-transference dynamic converge with the line of specularity and speech, the change to video-sessions alters the impact of the semiotic register in favor of signification. This type of setting treats drive excitation in a different way, with the risk of fostering a form of hystericization and excitability.

Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 349-361.