Abstract
With in-depth analysis, certain patients reveal a great degree of anger and spite towards the object, feeling disappointed in it and devaluing it as unnecessary or useless. This anger is usually in response to feeling unloved or rejected. One way in which this appears clinically is a harsh superego that leaves the patient constantly and cruelly wanting to achieve a state of self-contained perfection. This is the result of projective identification processes in which the desire and demand for an ideal object is put into the object and experienced as both conscious and unconscious judgement, rigidity and expectation. Naturally, this means the patient is always failing themselves and attacking themselves or others for being less than ideal. One case will be explored to understand certain aspects of this problem.
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