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When the analyst receives an especially violent projective identification from the analysand, he may be able to react in the normal way, namely, by interpreting it. However, he may be unable to tolerate it and consequently react with equally
violent rejection of the material, reject it but deny he is doing so, displace his rejection of it onto another patient, or unconsciously allow himself to play the role assigned to him by the analysand. The last reaction is the main subject of the paper and is illustrated by clinical examples.