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Winnicott’s theory reveals that parents must be able to hate the child in an environment that is not a sentimental environment. Otherwise, the child will have no choice but to develop a false-self, first by submitting and then by rebelling. This rebellion can appear in the very first stages of development, but it can also reemerge in the child through antisocial symptoms, thus in a more serious and destructive form. In continuity with the objective hate theorized by Winnicott, this article analyses what the author calls objective hate. Hidden within a false-self organization, objective hate requires a parental figure who can be turned to in the transference relationship so that the child’s true self can emerge. The author thus shows that it is sometimes necessary for the patient to objectively hate the analyst in order to be able subsequently to feel he or she objectively loves him. The clinical case of an 8-year-old child illustrates the point.