It is assumed that any acting out in the manic depressive syndrome is a defense against the envy of the idealized primary love object. Technically, it interferes when the analyst himself has not resolved his own idealized imagoes. When this happens, it permits the patient to dissociate the negative aspects of the analyst from other objects, such as the mother, to maintain in fact the positive aspects of the transference. There is, in essence, a denial and a state of doubt covering up ambivalent feelings. The clinical presentation validates