Following a review of the literature on analyzability and termination, Farrell reports an analytic case showing the 'desperate intensification' of the transference so frequently observed in the terminal phase. What was predictable in the beginning about the termination of the case was the patient's capacity for relatively mature object attachments, motivation for overcoming intrapsychic problems, and psychological mindedness. A statement early in the analysis of the patient's 'tragic feeling' about beginning treatment was premonitory in reflecting the affect of the terminal phase. Farrell suggests that special care be taken in examining the history of a patient's struggles toward identity and maturation in adolescence and early adulthood in predicting terminability. During adolescence, real separation from primary objects is required and the ego must adapt to the broad range of real possibilities at its disposal. Our understanding of adolescent moods, the satisfactions achieved, and the disappointments suffered may help us to predict the patient's experience in the terminal phase.