Focusing on and extrapolating from Elise’s illumination of the internal representation of the abuser in the abused, Dimen limns how psychoanalysis as a practice inevitably creates clinical quicksand for the analyst. She points to a frailty built into the psychopolitical structure of clinical psychoanalysis: the necessary idealization of the analyst involves not only the projection but the projective identification of goodness. This dynamic creates subjective dangers for the analyst in the context of the work’s narcissistic gratifications and frustrations, which in turn can lead to the abuse of power known as sexual boundary violations.