This paper attempts to define and distinguish envy and jealousy. Envy involves two persons; jealousy, three. They also differ in their origins early in life and in the nature of the object relationships they involve. Aggression plays a different part in each, but the part played by aggression has helped confuse the two concepts. Today, envy often stands for simple emulation. And

in its hostile and intensely painful quality, envy has become almost synonymous with jealousy. But the aggressive feelings in envy are different from those in jealousy; there is greater ambivalence in jealousy.