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The main theme is how very frequently, if not always, help is asked with regard to improving oneself, whilst the real request is how to bring about the reparation of important damaged inner objects without which reparation the subject's self cannot function normally and happily. The patient does not know how to do it, cannot do it. He seeks help with regard to those objects without a conscious realization of what he is looking for. A central aspect of the problemis that theatened and dying objects have to be kept alive for this purpose by the use of mental manoeuvres of a very complex nature. An attempt to describe the mechanisms used will be made. The contrast between concrete repair and psychic reparation proper appears to be fundamental in the failed efforts to repair, and resulting difficulties. (1988, p. 457)
He keeps them alive in the hope that help will come.
