ABSTRACT
When we considered some of the feelings which caseworker and client bring to a relationship, we were able to group them under the two headings of hopes and fears. Hopes related to the expectation of constructive, enriching relationships, while fears centred around destructive, revengeful interaction. Both sets of feelings are present in all of us, though we may become aware of them at different moments of time or as related to different people, as if they existed quite separately. When they do come together we call our attitude one of ambivalence. These expectations are, as has been stated, largely transferred from past experience, but we also saw that our perception of past and present alike is influenced by our phantasy and that phantasy in turn is highly coloured by unconscious motivation, i.e. by emotional impulse or drives. What is the nature of these inborn emotional impulses?
