Heinz Kohut: The Chicago Institute LecturesPaul Tolpin, Marian Tolpin Delivered to advanced candidates at The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1974-75, The Chicago Institute Lectures reveal a Kohut in transition, a Kohut wrestling with the creative tension in psychoanalysis between tradition and innovation, between continuity and change, even as he worked toward the psychology of the self "in the broad sense" that marked his decisive break from traditional psychoanalytic thought. Lightly edited by the Tolpins to preserve their authenticy, these lectures preserve the voice, the intellectual style, and the pedagogical bearing of a gifted creator in the very midst of creation. We find here a casual Kohut, thinking through in a relaxed and conversational way the assumptions that would become foundational to mature self psychology. The developmental trajectory of self-selfobject relationships, the role of selfobject failures in different types of psychopathology, the complex relationship between givens and the psychological environment in pathogenesis, the role of conflict in normal development and in psychopathology--these are among the recurrent themes taken up in these lectures. And there are, as well, Kohut's provocative asides on the child-rearing practices of his day, including the contrast between over- and understimulation, the impact of healthy parental sexuality on child development, and the difference between the normal oedipal phase of the self and the Oedipus complex. The clinical viewpoint of mature self psychology is anticipated in many ways, perhaps no more clearly than in Kohut's powerful reassessment of the perversions. The Chicago Institute Lectures are more than a key historical document in the evolution of psychoanalytic self psychology; they preserve the voice, the intellectual style, and the pedagogical bearing of a gifted creator in the very midst of creation. |
Contents
THOUGHTS ABOUT NARCISSISM AND HOMOSEXUALITY | |
ON THE VERTICAL SPLIT | |
VARIETIES OF AGGRESSION POSSIBILITIES OF SELF | |
THE MATURE TRANSFORMATIONS OF NARCISSISM | |
ON THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE | |
THE QUESTION OF DRIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND SOME THOUGHTS ON TECHNIQUE | |
CONSCIOUSNESS UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF LECTURE 16 February 14 1975 PRIDE SHAME AND SELFREGULATION | |
THE SELF AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX | |
A NEW MODE OF THINKING NARCISSISM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PSYCHOSIS | |
THE NUCLEAR SELF AND THE QUESTION OF HEALTH | |
THE BIPOLARTIY OF THE SELF LECTURE 21 April 25 1975 VARIETIES OF NARCISSISM | |
STRUCTURAL PSYCHOLOGY SELF PSYCHOLOGY THE SELF OBJECT MILIEU OF EARLY LIFE | |
THE SUBTLETY OF SELFOBJECT INTERACTIONS | |
NARCISSISTIC DISORDERS OEDIPAL DISORDERS | |
THE POINT OF VIEW OF SELF PSYCHOLOGY | |
PARANOIA AND SELF PSYCHOLOGY | |
PHOBIAS OBSESSIONS AND SELF PSYCHOLOGY | |
LIBIDO THEORY AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SELF | |
VARIETIES OF AGGRESSION | |
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