The author collected his data in ninety hours of interviews with nine Sansei and notes the differences between this and the psychoanalytic situation. The

conclusions are: (1) the defensive reaction on the part of the Sansei is invariably on the basis of a readiness for such a response because of low self-esteem; (2) the discomforts arising in situations in which prejudice is felt stem from similar deprivations in the individual's development; thus there is an unconscious substitution, the present object being a displacement from an earlier infantile object, i.e., a transference reaction; (3) much of the prejudicial feeling also emanates from projections; (4) the feeling of prejudice constitutes what may be called an attempt at restitution for the early narcissistic injury; (5) the restitutional role of this feeling is brought about by locating the source of pain outside oneself and by stereotyping those who inflict it.