““major threat to the psychoanalyst’s creativity in working with his patient is the patient’s relentless, aggressive attack on the analyst’s work with him. Attacks of this sort produce narcissistic lesions in the psychoanalyst. It is much easier for the analyst to tolerate aggression against any other aspects of his personality or behavior. The training analyst unable to tolerate the narcissistic candidate-analysand’s aggression may foster an unconscious collusion with the analysand, so that the latter’s aggression, particularly the destructive implications of unconscious envy, will not be explored. The””
