ABSTRACT
Building upon Melanie Klein's discoveries regarding projective identification, analysts began to examine the clinical value of the analyst's counter-transference when faced with the patient's depressive and paranoid anxieties. Bion notes how the patient manipulates the analyst with determined vigor, operating within the structure of an unconscious internal plan regarding self and object and creating a replica of various familiar conflicts, fears, and desires. Modern Kleinian Therapy includes the technical focus on the interpersonal pressures put upon the analyst during the more intense moments of transference. The chapter discusses two cases that involve transference situations which created a variety of counter-transference experiences. Love, hate, and knowledge have been classified by Kleinians as three of the bedrock areas of important psychic growth as well as critical psychic conflict. When the patient is overly anxious or eager in areas of love or hate, union or difference, desire or defense, and need or envy, thinking is often the first victim.
