This paper text seeks to locate psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy on a continuum, in light of the notion of the “work of transference.” These different settings give the conditions for a “transference demand upon the mind” of both the analysand and the analyst, and the conditions for the interpretation “of” the transference and “in” the transference. These three forms of the work of transference are examined. The paper proposes that the demand coming from the transference at work requires from the therapist not only a solid training but also a personal and intimate experience of transference within a personal analysis. Finally, the text puts forward the idea of a radical break between psychoanalytic psychotherapies and “psychoanalytically informed therapies.”