Hatred as an ingredient of inter-subjective workings is present in psychic life in different circumstances. In the clinical situation it reveals its multiple faces. Here we focus on the positive form that hatred can take on from a psychoanalytical perspective, as essential affect and a dynamic element in the affirmation of the ego. A clinical case illustrates this discussion. In brief, the paper stresses the need to amplify the analytical listening to hatred, its interpretation, and its management, which vary according to the vicissitudes it takes up and its purposes in psychic economy.
Psychoanalysis; fundamental psychopathology; hatred; hate; positive hate; ego