The Search for the Self

Volume 2: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981

Heinz Kohut, Paul Ornstein

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032317038
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429922107
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Abnormal Psychology
• Index: Psychology

'The re-issuing of the four volumes of the author's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain the author's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas, which he presented in The Analysis of the Self; the Restoration of the Self; and in How Does Analysis Cure? These volumes of The Search for the Self permit the reader to understand not only the above three basic texts of psychoanalytic self psychology more profoundly, but also to appreciate the author's sustained openness to further changes - to dare to present his self psychology as in continued flux, influenced by newly emerging empirical data of actual clinical practice. The current re-issue of the four volumes of The Search for the Self would assure that the younger generation of psychoanalysts would be exposed to a clinical theory that could contribute greatly to solving the therapeutic dilemmas facing psychoanalysis today'. This is Volume two.

Subject Index

• Accident proneness, 444
• Addiction, counterphobic mechanism in, 201-203
• Adolescence, 659-662
• Aggression
• childhood, 351-354
• concept of, 31, 365-366, 521
• narcissism and, 634-636
• narcissistic rage as prototype of, 71, 636-640
• primary, 180
• see also Drive, Narcissistic rage
• American Psychoanalytic Association
• organizational reform of, 395403, 609-614
• scientific activities of, 589-614
• Anxiety, 245-250, 267-269
• existential, 751-763
• and sounds, 141, 236-237
• see also Fear, Neurosis
• Aphasia, 243
• Applied psychoanalysis; see Psychoanalysis, applied
• Archaic mental processes, 179-180, 214-217, 236-237; see also Grandiose self, Idealized parent imago
• Area of progressive neutralization, 39, 310, 315, 368-371
• Area of transference, 39, 310-315, 368-371
• Art, 135, 238
• psychoanalysis and, 780-782
• and science, 916-920
• see also Artistic sublimation, Creativity and creative process, Psychoanalysis, applied
• Artistic sublimation, 257
• clinical example of, 808-813
• disintegration of, 107-130
• dreams and, 314-315
• see also Art, Creativity and creative process
• Autoeroticism, 478, 754-755, 757, 764-766

• Beating fantasy, 263-265
• Biography (psychoanalytic), 34-38, 107-130, 275-303
• see also Psychoanalysis, applied
• Biology and biological approach, 172-176, 216, 222-223, 227-228
• Borderline state(s), 21-23, 46, 159, 162-166
• clinical example of, 905
• dreams in, 341-342n

• Catastrophic reaction, 640-642
• Catharsis, music as, 235-236
• Charismatic personality; see Personality, charismatic
• Child(ren)(hood)
• aggression in, 351-354
• creativity in, 271-274
• dependence of, 221-225
• exhibitionism in, 438-439
• fantasy in, 310-311
• formation of self in, 94-98, 101, 623-624, 742-745, 755-770, 881-882
• free association in, 861-862
• narcissism in, 47-48, 556-557, 617-618, 742-745, 899
• neurosis in, 405-407
• precursors of music in, 137-143, 240-253
• reaction to painful injury, 642643
• repression of dri...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• 35. Psychoanalysis in a Troubled World
• 36. Narcissism as a Resistance and as a Driving Force in Psychoanalysis
• 37. Peace Prize 1969: Laudation
• 38. Discussion of “The Self: A Contribution to Its Place in Theory and Technique”
• 39. Scientific Activities of the American Psychoanalytic Association: An Inquiry
• 40. Thoughts on Narcissism and Narcissistic Rage
• 41. Discussion of “On the Adolescent Process as a Transformation of the Self”
• 42. The Future of Psychoanalysis
• 43. The Psychoanalyst in the Community of Scholars
• 44. Letter to the Author: Preface to Lehrjahre auf der Couch
• 45. Remarks About the Formation of the Self—Letter to a Student Regarding Some Principles of Psychoanalytic Research
• 46. The Self in History
• 47. A Note on Female Sexuality
• 48. Creativeness, Charisma, Group Psychology: Reflections on the Self-Analysis of Freud
• 49. Preface to Der falsche Weg zum Selbst, Studien zur Drogenkarriere
• Letters — 1961-1978
• Conclusion: The Search for the Analyst’s Self
• References
• Name Index
• Subject Index