ABSTRACT
In this chapter I want to discuss some aspects of aggression in a group of patients whose behaviour in the analysis appears to be strikingly unaggressive, so that they seem passive and inert-the analyst apparently being expected to carry all responsibility for interest or progress in the analysis. I shall suggest that, in these patients, loss of conscious contact with their aggression is associated with a failure in discovering their own identity, and that their sense of identity and lively activity can only be established if their powerful and self-destructive impulses can be uncovered in the transference, making it possible for them to integrate their aggressivity with the rest of their personality.
