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The psychoanalytic literature often traces the roots of negative therapeutic reactions to an inability to tolerate the experience of envy. Allowing conscious recognition of the envy would require an ability to be tolerant of one's dependence on the goodness of an object. The article explores the connections between envy, narcissism, negative therapeutic reactions, revenge, and protection of the object field of the mind.