The traditional distinction between the transference neuroses and the narcissistic neuroses is no longer applicable to clinical psychoanalysis, since "those in transference can be narcissistic and those narcissistic can be in transference." Moreover, the notion of narcissistic neurosis is overly abstract and linked to metapsychological assumptions concerning libido theory and the allocation of libido outward rather than inward. The author suggests that these entities be viewed at a more directly clinical level as "resistance neuroses," treated on a par with "transference neuroses." He suggests that Freud considered narcissistic neurosis to be unanalyzable primarily because these patients were manifesting resistance, whereas transference neuroses were analyzable because the attachment to the analyst manifested by these patients permitted collaborative work with the analyst's efforts at interpretation. In Freud's