ABSTRACT
This chapter examines one aspect of the whole subject of ambivalence, namely, hate in the countertransference. A main task of the analyst of any patient is to maintain objectivity in regard to all that the patient brings, and a special case of this is the analyst’s need to be able to hate the patient objectively. If the patient seeks objective or justified hate he must be able to reach it, else he cannot feel he can reach objective love. The analyst must be prepared to bear strain without expecting the patient to know anything about what he is doing, perhaps over a long period of time. To do this he must be easily aware of his own fear and hate. Abnormality in countertransference feelings, and set relationships and identifications that are under repression in the analyst.
