Following the Kuhnian model of scientific progression, psychoanalytic paradigms facilitate growth but risk stasis and isolation. Two paradigms used to treat patients with borderline personality organization, the London Kleinian model and Otto Kernberg's transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), share a common theoretical foundation but are not engaged in constructive dialogue. This paper presents a map for rapprochement of these two models, highlighting similarities and differences. Drawing on papers by and about Betty Joseph, I argue that the TFP concept of the -a self-representation and an object-representation, connected by a linking affect - is an expansion of Kleinian object relations theory and is implicit in Joseph's work. Furthermore, TFP articulates an active technical approach that is inherent in descriptions of Joseph's cases and in Bion's . This ‘positive capability’ complements the ‘negative capability’ (or ) promoted by contemporary Bionians, and enables grasping the here-and-now immediacy of patients’ total communications, especially their destructive aggression. Arguably, this TFP approach is commensurable with Joseph's own approach to the here-and-now, as outlined by Rachel Blass. A clinical vignette from a TFP treatment featuring dream interpretation, transference, and resistance is recounted to illustrate these points. dyad Attacks on Linking reverie