「…應該提到分析師態度一兩個更進一步的面向，特別是需要有想象力的心智和靈活和多才多藝的能力。病人在移情中通過多樣的迂迴路徑，產生各式各樣的幻想，分析師這端需要對應的多才多藝和想象力來跟隨他們…
分析師的意象（imago）和友善認同範圍越大，就越有能力理解形形色色的人， 包容他們的困境和焦慮，透過意象，我也指他過去和當前的客體關係，這些關係已經內化，同時為他的情感與悲憫的回應的豐富加添寬度和深度，換句話說，生活經驗和與各種人接觸的正向經驗，本應該增加他的人性、幽默、獨立以及他人格的富足，用梅雷迪斯的措辭來說，就像牧場上的千隻蜜蜂一樣寬，我認為這一切在分析師的工作中發揮了重要作用。分析無法在實驗室的氣氛中,完成。」
－梅蘭妮 克萊恩
“…one or two further aspects of the analyst’s attitude should be mentioned, in particular, the need for an imaginative mind and a capacity for flexibility and versatility. The patient’s phantasies appear in the transference situation in such a variety of expressions and through such circuitous routes that it requires a corresponding versatility and imagination on the part of the analyst to follow them. …
Klein, M. (1936) Lecture Three: Transference and Interpretation. In Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein. John Steiner (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 52-53.
The wider the range of his imagos and friendly identifications the more capable will the analyst be of understanding a variety of people and of tolerating their difficulties and anxieties. By imagos I mean also all his past and present object-relations, which have become internalised and which add width and depth to the richness of his feelings and to his sympathetic response. In other words, experiences of life and experience in life in good contact with all kinds of people in an ordinary way should have added to his humanity, sense of humor, detachment and to the wealth of his personality which, to put it in [George] Meredith’s phrase, ‘should be as broad as a thousand beeves at pasture.’ I think all this plays an important role in the analyst’s work. Analysis cannot be done in a laboratory atmosphere.”
