Some additional remarks on problems of transference.
I have dwelt on the nature of the analytic relationship with patients suffering from narcissistic character pathology. I prefer the term narcissistic tie to narcissistic transference. The narcissistic patient lacks the resources necessary to establish a working alliance, and the analyst's principal task is to bring the patient to the point where he is capable of a sense of reality, of tolerating frustration, of taming rage, and of true object relatedness. I have also pointed to the particular tasks these patients set for the analyst in terms of countertransference reactions.
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