Scharff takes a consistent interpretive stance with her patient, the purpose of which is to maintain her analyzing capacity and her ability to contain the patient's projective identifications and detoxify them. From an interpersonal/relational perspective, the analyst is continuously involved in unconscious mutual enactments with the patient, and therefore cannot consistently depend on any technical guidelines. No stance the analyst can take can be depended upon to have an unvarying meaning to the patient. An unfailingly interpretive or containing approach is not only impossible to maintain, but problematic to believe one can maintain. Interactions in the transcript are examined with these points in mind.