First published in 1993. This is Volume 13, No 4 of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry which focuses on locating transference: actuality and illusion in the psychoanalytic encounter. The interrelation between actuality and illusion within the clincal encounter is a subject that has influenced the tehory and pratcice of psychoanalysis since its beginnings, particulary with regard to how clinicians identify and construe the transference.