ABSTRACT
My overall strategy in this chapter is to give a brief history of Ms. A, then summarize certain phases of the analysis to set the stage for exploring a number of detailed vignettes, hour by hour, that will demonstrate the “disruptions and repairs of the idealizing transference.” I've chosen vignettes from the early, middle, and termination phases of analysis. Tracking these vignettes, these way stations, over the course of the analysis will, I believe, demonstrate the patient's increasing tolerance for disruptions in the transference as well as her growing capacity to explore such disruptions. Concomitant with this analytic growth, the gradual transmuting internalization of selfobject functions can be seen leading to structure building and, ultimately, to a successful termination phase of the analysis.
