By Heinz Kohut
“The re-issuing of the 4 volumes of Heinz Kohut’s writings is a huge publishing occasion for psychoanalysts who're drawn to either the theoretical and the healing points of psychoanalysis. those volumes include Kohut’s pre-self psychology essays in addition to these he wrote which will proceed to extend on his groundbreaking rules, which he provided within the research of the Self ; The recovery of the Self; and in How Does research Cure?These volumes of the quest for the Self let the reader to appreciate not just the above 3 uncomplicated texts of psychoanalytic self psychology extra profoundly, but in addition to understand Kohut’s sustained openness to additional changes—to dare to give his self psychology as in persisted flux, stimulated by means of newly rising empirical information of exact medical perform. the present re-issue of the 4 volumes of the quest for the Self could guarantee that the more youthful iteration of psychoanalysts will be uncovered to a medical idea that can give a contribution enormously to fixing the healing dilemmas dealing with psychoanalysis today.” —From the Foreword by means of Paul OrnsteinVolumes 1 and a couple of of the quest for the Self surround Heinz Kohut's chosen writings and letters from 1950 to 1978. Volumes three and four proceed with the additional choice of his chosen writings and letters (published in addition to formerly unpublished) from 1978 until eventually his premature dying in 1981.
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441 build, belatedly, an independent male sell, had, on the whole, g o n e into repression. It is o f theoretical importance to emphasize at this point that the relatively successful encounter with his father when M r . Z. was nine was, o f course, not the first relationship with a selfobject that led to the laying d o w n o f self structure in this sector o f his personality. W h i l e there are all indications that it was indeed the most important o n e o f his early life, that it was, in other words, not just a screen for or derivative o f a m o r e important earlier one, the outlines o f an independent self had been drawn much earlier in life.
I will add here that my interpretations during this phase, both as they concerned the idealizing transference and the recovery o f his father's positive features, were focused on the meaning that these two sets o f experiences had for the patient. I did not confront him with the reality o f either my o w n o r o f his father's shortcomings, but restricted myself to giving expression to my understanding for his need—in childhood and as now revived in the transference—for an idealized man to w h o m he could look up, o f w h o m he could be proud.
A l t h o u g h I did not accede to his demands for specific information about me, but told him that his wish to get to know me was surely rooted in an old wish or need, I did concede that, after listening to him further and watching his reactions, I had to agree with him that the term "curiosity" that I had been using had not been right—that what he was experiencing now was not a revival o f sexual voyeurism o f childhood but some different need. A n d I finally ventured the guess that it was his need for a strong father that lay behind his questions, that he wanted to know whether I, too, was weak—subdued in intercourse by my wife, unable to be the idealizable emotional support o f a son.