Regression related to an understanding of the need for the analyst to remain their natural self, separate from the patient. This was related to what Caper describes as the analyst's natural tendency to identify, and the analyst's struggle not to identify or, having identified, to come to dis-identify with the patient, thereby achieving, perhaps, what Symington describes as an "act of freedom" This chapter discusses Caper's example of the patient's phantasy of the analyst's omnipotence, and explores the difficulties for the analyst in achieving an analytic attitude in view of the patient's struggle with their identity. The analyst's interpretation of the transference in the here-and-now amounts to putting patients in touch with their emotional core, as it draws patients' attention to their immediate feelings about the analyst. The chapter is partly a dialogue with that paper but mostly serves to get to the heart of issues of technique.