The Search for the Self, Volume 3: Selected Writings of by Heinz Kohut

By Heinz Kohut

“The re-issuing of the 4 volumes of Heinz Kohut’s writings is an immense publishing occasion for psychoanalysts who're drawn to either the theoretical and the healing features of psychoanalysis. those volumes include Kohut’s pre-self psychology essays in addition to these he wrote so one can proceed to extend on his groundbreaking rules, which he offered within the research of the Self ; The recovery of the Self; and in How Does research Cure?These volumes of the hunt for the Self enable the reader to appreciate not just the above 3 easy texts of psychoanalytic self psychology extra profoundly, but in addition to understand Kohut’s sustained openness to additional changes—to dare to offer his self psychology as in persisted flux, inspired by way of newly rising empirical facts of tangible scientific perform. the present re-issue of the 4 volumes of the quest for the Self may guarantee that the more youthful new release of psychoanalysts will be uncovered to a scientific concept that can give a contribution tremendously to fixing the healing dilemmas dealing with psychoanalysis today.” —From the Foreword by means of Paul OrnsteinVolumes 1 and a couple of of the hunt for the Self surround Heinz Kohut's chosen writings and letters from 1950 to 1978. Volumes three and four proceed with the additional selection of his chosen writings and letters (published in addition to formerly unpublished) from 1978 till his premature demise in 1981.

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Whatever the ultimate fate of this particular "characterology" might turn out to be-and ly of the risks involved-we are interested in Kohut is f ~ ~ laware it as another example of his mode of analytic thinking; as a product of another pioneering effort in an area where analytic 44 PAUL H. ORNSTEIN formulations have riot been of lasting value. " Yet, this effort is rnost closely based on genetic reconstructions ant1 on a transference-based recognition of their dynamic roots, rather than on descriptions of manifest behavioi- alone.

24 PAUL H. ORNSTEIN meeting, Kohut reintroduced the topic of empathy and responded extensively and in great depth (with his usual flair for off-the-cuf'f remarks) to the basic questions anti misgivings of his critics. After that he fell that by now he had certainly said enough on the subject and had put it (and the surrounding controversy) to rest. -1'his was not to be either. Empathy, in all of its various scientific, clinical, and further extended meanings, had become so f~indameritalto Kohut's work, no wonder critics and followers alike wished to delve into the subject colitinuously.

In his "Reflections" at the conference on the fourth symposium on "Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology: An Integration of Theories" Kohut felt called upon to enlarge again on his ideas on empathy. T h e critique that served as the stimulus considered the overall clinical approach of self psychology favorably, but repudiated the theory that arose from it-faulting the central place accorded empathy as the analytic observational mode. This was quite puzzling to Kohut, since he viewed the theories that emerged from his clinical work guided by empathy as the necessary, inevitable, and logical conclusions; theories that could not be properly appreciated (valued or criticized, acceptecl or rejected) without recognizing this intrinsic relation between them.

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