This paper analyses the importance of interpreting envy within the analytic situation. We proceed from the Kleinian definition of envy, that which stems from the subject, not from the frustrating characteristics of the object. Among the object's capabilities, that of tolerating what he has not is especially included (negative capacity).

We maintain that on the attitude taken by the analyst when faced by negative transference—and by envy in particular—depend the different interpretive lines which will evolve.