What is happening to a patient that reorients in a single session, on a consistent basis, between hatred/rage and a wish to achieve a markedly polar feeling state—complete and total altruistic compassion? The patient, having been raised in a strict, conservative Christian home, displays a bipolar regression when treatment begins, vacillating wildly between rage episodes and severe depressive episodes, punctuated with a wish to rid herself of her rage and exchange it wholesale for compassion—a kind of psychic alchemy. When faced with the impossibility of this endeavor, she considers herself having failed her father, a devout Christian who she considers capable of this transformation, a faultless, Christ-like man who stands in direct opposition to her experience of her materialistic, callous, selfish mother. Over time, the inclusion of the analyst in this constellation allows for brief experiences of relief from this repetition and the expression of new ideas. This particular manifestation of defenses is discussed using psychoanalytic literature on undoing and negation—the mechanisms being displayed by the patient—along with the complementary idealization of the father. The philosopher S⊘ren Kierkegaard, who wrote extensively on Christianity and ontology, and French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, known for his writing on psycholinguistics, are referenced. Clinical data is gathered and discussed using this constellation of defenses as a framework for understanding the case.