Some patients try to reach an internal vision of an ideal object they can bond with and find emotional nourishment from. The way they go about this quest is desperate and aggressive, the result of extreme greed. This greed is bound with anxieties of loss, envy, and guilt, all experienced within the paranoid-schizoid position. These patients rely heavily on the defenses of splitting and projective identification, which are used to maintain the phantasy of an ideal object or an ideal self. Some patients wish to merge with this wonderful object. With an insatiable hunger, they empty it of all its goodness. Others turn these urges inward and strive to become perfect themselves. As Melanie Klein has pointed out, these strong cycles of greed and envy cause even greater levels of persecutory fear. Case material is used for illustration.