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This instructive paper deals with the analysis of adolescents. Three cases are described to illustrate the adolescent's defense against the working through of the transference. The patients discontinued analysis in late adolescence after developing heterosexual object relationships. Several years later they returned, and it was at this point that the earlier transference relationships to the analyst as well as the infantile neuroses were thoroughly analyzed.
The adolescent's struggle with self, fluctuating identifications, and object relations emanating from a heightened narcissistic core are all discussed.