Containing, translating, and interpretive acting out : the quest for therapeutic balance -- Slippery when wet : the imperfect art of interpretation -- Interpretive acting out : unavoidable and sometimes useful -- Enactments, interactions, and interpretations -- Kleinian couple's treatment : a complicated case -- Failures, successes, and question marks -- Different ways of controlling the object -- Taming, restoring, and rebuilding, or sealing off, burying, and eliminating the object : two ways of controlling the other -- Two varieties of psychic retreat : the struggle with combined paranoid and depressive conflicts -- Trapped in an emotional foxhole : coping with paranoid and depressive conflicts -- Discussion.