Index (economics) In economics and finance, an index is a statistical measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points. These data may be derived from any number of sources, including company performance, prices, productivity, and employment. Economic indices track economic health from different perspectives.
Transference and countertransference. Transference and countertransference: In a therapy context, transference refers to redirection of a client's feelings from a significant person to a therapist.
Transference is then an illusion, but the point is that we cannot by pass it and reach directly for the truth. The truth itself is constituted through the illusion proper to the transferenceâthe truth arises from misrecognition in Lacan's words.