Psychology

The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders

The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders

Heinz Kohut

Language: English

Pages: 384

ISBN: 0226450120

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. In his highly influential book The Analysis of the Self, Kohut established the industry standard of the treatment of personality disorders for a generation of analysts. This volume, best known for its groundbreaking analysis of narcissism, is essential reading for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand human personality in its many incarnations.
 

“Kohut has done for narcissism what the novelist Charles Dickens did for poverty in the nineteenth century. Everyone always knew that both existed and were a problem. . . . The undoubted originality is to have put it together in a form which carries appeal to action.”—International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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which stood in the way. There was a residual insistence, related to deep and old fixation points, on seeing myself in the narcissistic center of the stage; and, although I had of course for a long time struggled with the relevant childhood delusions and thought that I had, on the whole, achieved dominance over them, I was temporarily unable to cope with the cognitive task posed by the confrontation with the reactivated grandiose self of my patient. Thus I refused to entertain the possibility that

empathy in the observation of areas outside the field of complex psychological states. This use of empathy in the observation of the nonpsychological field leads to a faulty, prerational, animistic perception of reality and is, in general, the manifestation of a perceptual and cognitive infantilism. In scientific psychology, too, empathy is restricted to being a tool for the gathering of psychological data; it does not by itself bring about their explanation. In other words: it is a mode of

from a new-found ability to perform a restricted range of tasks with zestful initiative to the emergence of brilliantly inventive artistic schemes or of penetrating scientific undertakings, may appear, seemingly spontaneously, in the course of many analyses of narcissistic personalities. Its appearance is again specifically related to the mobilization of formerly frozen narcissistic cathexes, in the area of both the grandiose self and the idealized parent Imago. I shall first address myself to

isolation Jacobson, E., xiv, 31, 83, 118, 335 Jaspers, K., 301, 335 Joffe. W. G., 335 Jokes, 111, 183, 230 —self-belittling, 263 Jones, E., 106, 223, 236, 299, 335 Jung, C. G., 223 Justin, 290, 335 Kamer, M., 335 Kaplan, S. M., 106, 335, 341 Kaufman, W., 211 Keats,.J., 315, 333 Kernberg. O., 179, 335 Khan,:M. M. R., 336 Kleeman, J., 119, 336 Klein, M., 206, 212–214, 281, 333, 336 Kligerman, C., xi, 317, 336 Klumpner, G. H., xi Koff, R. H., 175, 336 Kohut, H., 3, 25, 40, 44,

projective-introjective activities to which some analysts assign a conspicuous place of dominant influence in the clinical transference of all analysands, in conformance with the assumptions of M. Klein’s “English school” of psychoanalysis—this imaginative and pioneering (but, unfortunately, theoretically not solidly based) attempt to plumb the most concealed depths of human experience—that there exist in infancy two ubiquitous primary positions, the “paranoid” and the “depressive” (see E.

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