Students of psychoanalysis who are being analyzed by the same training analyst regard each other as siblings, claiming the right to rivalry and ambivalence to each other. Family pride protects all members against the attacks of external enemies. When the student becomes a training analyst himself, he has (or used to have) allegiance to the ideal father, Freud, and a highly ambivalent relationship to his own training analyst. It is as if he had become a father without having resolved his conflicts with his own father; and he must act out in his attitude toward his patients his conflicts over being a 'parent'. This countertransference may cause the training analyst to wish that the students he analyzes shall have a better (or no better) time in their analyses than he had in his own.