ABSTRACT
Analysis leads to an increased ability to work and to love. The affect that best describes this increased ability is enthusiasm or zest. To describe what eventually becomes what psychoanalysts call the normal enthusiasm in the analyst and analysand for the process of analysis it is necessary to outline the vicissitudes of pleasure from its simplest form through subsequent stages. First, through the split between persecution and megalomania. Second, through ambivalence. Third, through sadomasochism. Fourth, through envy and admiration. Fifth, through grief, mania and mourning, with its resolution in reparation. Any projected love and hate may be reintrojected, and the admiration becomes possible as development continues. Analysand finds it painful to mourn the past, and to look to the future to find the substitute with which reparation can be made. Learning to make the best of a bad job on the part of the analysand and analyst will enhance enthusiasm for curiously seeking what can still be done.
