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HEINZ KoHuT The Chicago Institute Lectures Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material HEINZ KoHuT The Chicago Institute Lectures edited by Paul Tolpin and Marian Tolpin (cid:1) THE ANALYTIC PRESS 1996 Hillsdale, NJ London Copyrighted Material Copyright 1996 by The Analytic Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form: by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by The Analytic Press, Inc. Editorial Offices: 101 West Street, Hillsdale, NJ 07642 Typeset by Tech Type, Ramsey, New jersey library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kohut, Heinz [Speeches. Selections] Heinz Kohut: the Chicago Institute lectures I edited by Paul Tolpin, Marian Tolpin. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88163-116-7 1. Psychoanalysis. I. Tolpin, Paul. II. Tolpin, Marian. Ill. Title. BF109.K618A25 1996 150.19'5-dc20 96-6374 CIP Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Copyrighted Material CoNTENTS PREFACE IiXx LEcruRE 1 (January 7, 1972) 1 PERVERSIONS LECTURE 2 (April 14, 1972) 13 WHAT ARE PATIENTS ANGRY ABOUT? LECfURE 3 (November 24, 1972) 31 THOUGHTS ABoUT NARCISSISM AND HOMOSEXUALITY LECTURE 4 (March 2, 1973) 47 ON THE VERTICAL SPLIT LEcruRE 5 (June 8, 1973) 63 VARIETIES OF AGGRESSION, PossiBILmES OF SELF LEcruRE 6 (February 15, 1974) 79 THE MATURE TRANSFORMATIONS OF NARCISSISM v Copyrighted Material vi Contents LEcruRE 7 (March 29, 1974) 93 ON THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE LEcruRE 8 (June 7, 1974) 109 NARCISSISTIC DISORDERS, OEDIPAL DISORDERS LEcruRE 9 (October ll, 1974) 125 THE Porm OF VIEW oF SELF PsYCHOLCXJY LEcruRE 10 (October 25, 1974) 141 PARANOIA AND SELF PSYCHOLCXJY LEcruRE ll (November 8, 1974) 159 PHOBIAS, OBSESSIONS, AND SELF PSYCHOLCXJY LEcruRE 12 (November 22, 1974) 177 LIBIDO THEORY AND THE PSYCHOLCXJY OF THE SELF LEcruRE 13 (January 3, 1975) 195 VARIETIES OF AGGRESSION LEcruRE 14 (January 17, 1975) 211 THE QUESTION OF DRIVE PSYCHOLCXJY AND SoME THOUGHTS ON TECHNIQUE LEcruRE 15 (January 31, 1975) 227 CoNSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE SELF LEcruRE 16 (February 14, 1975) 243 PRIDE, SHAME, AND SELF-REGULATION LEcruRE 17 (February 28, 1975) 259 THE SELF AND THE OEDIPUS CoMPLEX LEcruRE 18 (March 14, 1975) 275 A NEW MODE OF THINI<ING: NARCISSISM AND THE PSYCHOLCXJY OF PSYCHOSIS LEcruRE 19 (March 28, 1975) 291 THE NucLEAR SELF AND THE QUESTioN OF HEALTH Copyrighted Material Contents Vl1 LECTURE 20 (April 11, 1975) 307 THE BIPOLARITY OF THE SELF LECTURE 21 (April 25, 1975) 319 VARIETIES OF NARCISSISM LECTURE 22 (May 9, 1975) 333 STRUCTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, SELF PSYCHOLOGY: THE SELF-OBJECT MILIEU OF EARLy LIFE LECTURE 23 (May 23, 1975) 349 THE SUBTLETY OF SELF-OBJECT INTERACTIONS LECTURE 24 (June 6, 1975) 365 TECHNIQUE, TERMINATION, TRIAL INTERNALIZATIONS LECTURE 25 (June 11, 1976) 381 THouGHTS oN THE SELF AND ITs RESToRATION REFERENCES 397 INDEX 401 Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material PREFACE KoHur TALKS WITH SroDENTs-"I'M STILL STRUGGLING WITH InEAs" The 25 Chicago Institute Lectures originated in informal talks that Heinz Kohut gave to advanced students in classes he taught from 1972 to 1976. These were years of transition between The Analysis ofthe Self(197l) and The Restoration of the Self (1977; the ideas of the bipolar self and compensatory structure were introduced in the latter book ftrst mentioned here). It was suggested to Kohut (by Paul Tolpin in 1980) that the talks would be useful for teaching his new theory of the self and that they should be published as a book. Kohut was doubtful. The talks were "off the cuff," entirely extemporaneous. A more important reservation, as he had told the students earlier (see Lecture 10) was, "I'm not yet so clear about what I'm talking about. I'm still struggling with ideas and have not nicely systematized them" (pp. 142-143). Indeed, the lectures are not "nicely systematized." Not yet clear about the theoretical conceptualization of his clinical discoveries, Kohut fre quently circles around the students' question, so to speak, before turning back to his answers. Thus the titles (which we added) do not reflect all the lX Copyrighted Material
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