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The weaning process illustrates that point. Weaning positions the child as aggressor cruelly and greedily aiming at satisfaction of all desire for the breast (Greenberg & Mitchell, 1983); as raging and fearful because the mother who owns the breast is persecuting the child by withdrawing it; and as anxious, fearful, and/or remorseful because of the fantasy that the object has been destroyed or, more, that the child has been the destroyer of the object. Demands placed on the ego "fight against its uncontrollable hatred," which fosters anxiety over the fate of the loved object, fear of losing that loved object altogether, and thus an attempt to restore identification with the good of that object. This feature of splitting ought to preserve or foster the feature of love for the ego while suppressing hatred for the bad internal objects of frustration, and redirecting any experience of depression because of a sense of incapacity for loving and protecting the loved internal object:
The attempts to save the loved object, to repair and restore it, attempt
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