Heimann emphasizes the analyst's capacity to sustain feelings without discharge which enables him to analyze his countertransference and to utilize this in interpreting the transference rather than the countertransference. The analyst's training enables him to sustain his feelings; his feeling capacity is extensive rather than intensive, as is the patient's. The author uses Gitelson's formulations dividing countertransference into initial 'transference potential', which may preclude a specific analysis at the outset, and reactions to the patient's transference, specific material, or reactions to the analyst. Heimann feels Gitelson's division is quantitative and that the essential criterion is in self-analyzability. She emphatically disagrees with interpreting the countertransference to