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ONE OF WINNICOTT'S (1945) MOST COMPELLING yet ultimately enigmatic observations was the suggestion that:
The patient requires of his analyst the understanding that the analyst's work is to some extent his effort to cope with his own [the analyst's] … guilt and grief resultant from the destructive elements in his own [the analyst's] love. The patient … needs his analyst to be able to see the analyst's undisplaced and co-incident love and hate of him…. The end of the hour, the end of the analysis, the rules and regulations, these all come in as important expressions of hate, just as the good interpretations are expressions of love, and symbolical of good food and care” [p. 146; italics added].
In the spirit of Winnicott's further remark that “this theme, could be developed extensively and usefully,” I am going to develop the theme by making use of an analytic perspective that is inspired by the work my colleagues and I have been doing using aspects of