The process which I describe as persecutory guilt refers to a particular situation subsequent to the projection of guilt into the object and negation of guilt in the self. Consequently the patient feels persecuted by the object, who 'unjustly' and aggressively forces guilt into him as a way of obliging him to include the object libidinally in his pleasures, benefits, resources, and successes.

The aim of this paper is to call attention to the occurrence of another intermediary solution between progressing to the depressive position and regressing to the schizoid-paranoid position. The patients I have observed, after a diminution of their paranoid anxieties, although still unable to bear depressive anxieties, protected themselves from these anxieties utilizing anew the mechanisms of splitting and projective identification, now, however, in order to deal with