"Rooting her analysis in Jungian analytical psychology, Terrie Waddell continues the exploration of the figure of the vampire as a being that is eternally imprisoned in a transitional space. In her chapter, "Consensual and Non-consensual Sucking: Vampires and Transitional Phenomena", Waddell identified recent cinematic campire protagonists as the uncanny hybrids of mother/infant/lover. Concentrating on the act of body fluid exchange (blood and venom) between the vampire and their victim, the author argues for the reading of the vampire as signifying the immature and liminal and the potential."