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Psychoanalysis was developed by Freud in defending against the depression brought on by tobacco addiction and the death of his father. Psychoanalysis still shows this antidepressive position in its intolerance for and inability to understand and manage, even after Kleinian insights, the schizoparanoid position. There is a need for flexibility in the analyst, an ability to hear and respond to the unconscious whenever and wherever the patient might reveal it. Rigidity is stultifying and can even lead to patient suicides when the psychotic core, even in neurotic patients, is not heard and responded to. The attempt to become more flexible about psychoanalysis has led to the analysis of new types of transference: the