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K o h u t ' s F reudian V isio n
Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz
in collaboration with
Heinz Kohut
¡ 3 Routledge
Taylor & Francis Croup
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Published 2014 by Routledge
First published 1999 by The Analytic Press, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rubovits-Seitz, Philip F. D., 1921-
Kohut's Freudian vision / Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz in collaboration
with Heinz Kohut.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-88163-284-2 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-13800-541-9 (pbk)
1. Psychoanalysis. 2. Kohut, Heinz. I. Kohut, Heinz. II. Title.
BF173.R785 1999
150.19'5'092—dc21 98-47795
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Part I
KOHUT'S LECTURES ON
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY (1958-1960) 1
Heinz Kohut and Philip F. D. Seitz
Lecture 1 Three Periods in the Development
o f Psychoanalysis 3
Lecture 2 How It All Began 6
Lecture 3 The Dynamic and Typographic
Points o f View 10
Lecture 4 Conflict, Transference,
and Infantile Sexuality 13
Lecture 5 Optimal versus Traumatic
Frustration, Memory versus
Hallucinations, and Daydreaming 17
Lecture 6 Psychic Trauma and the
Economic Point o f View 21
Lecture 7 Primal Repression and "Actual Neurosis" 24
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Lecture 8 The Genetic Point o f View 26
Lecture 9 Symptom Formation 30
Lecture 10 Symptom Formation From a
Longitudinal Perspective 34
Lecture 11 Freud's Theory o f Psychosis 37
Lecture 12 Freud's Theory o f Depression,
and Preoedipal Phobias 41
Lecture 13 Chapter 7 in The Interpretation of Dreams 44
Lecture 14 Chapter 7, Section A:
The Forgetting o f Dreams 48
Lecture 15 Chapter 7, Section B: Regression 50
Lecture 16 Chapter 7, Section B:
Regression (continued) 54
Lecture 17 Chapter 7, Section C: Wish-Fulfillment 57
Lecture 18 Chapter 7, Section C:
Wish-Fulfillment (continued) 59
Lecture 19 Chapter 7, Section D:
The Function o f Dreams 62
Lecture 20 Chapter 7, Section D:
The Function o f Dreams (continued) 65
Lecture 21 Chapter 7, Section E:
Primary and Secondary Processes 68
Lecture 22 Chapter 7, Section F:
The Unconscious, Consciousness, and Reality 71
Lecture 23 The Second Phase in the
Development o f Psychoanalytic Theory 75
Lecture 24 Melancholia 77
Lecture 25 The Structural Model and Neutralization 79
Lecture 26 Aggression 83
Lecture 27 Aggression (continued):
The "Childhood Object" and the Superego 87
Contents ix
Lecture 28 The Ego Ideal: Censuring and
Approving Parts of the Superego 92
Lecture 29 Narcissism 96
Lecture 30 The Dual Instinct Theory 99
Lecture 31 Changes in the Concept of Anxiety 102
Lecture 32 Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety:
Chapters 1 and 2 106
Lecture 33 Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety:
Chapters 3 and 4 108
Lecture 34 Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety:
Chapter 5 111
Part II
CONCEPTS AND THEORIES OF
PSYCHOANALYSIS (1963) 113
Heinz Kohut and Philip F. D. Seitz
Part III
KOHUT'S METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING
FREUDIAN THEORY 147
Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz
Part IV
KOHUT'S CONCEPTS OF NARCISSISM
AND SELF PSYCHOLOGY:
CONTINUITIES WITH FREUDIAN THEORY 161
Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz
References 211
Index 223
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Acknowledgments
I am indebted most o f all to Heinz Kohut, M.D., who was second
only to Freud in helping me understand the complex theoretical
system o f psychoanalysis. I am grateful also to Professor Thomas
A. Kohut for his encouragement and cooperation regarding the
publication o f his father's lectures on psychoanalytic theory.
Professor Kohut has indicated to me that he is pleased that his
father's lectures on psychoanalytic psychology are being pub
lished. "I am very familiar with those lectures," he said; “I used
m y father's copy to prepare for my final exam at the Cincinnati
Psychoanalytic Institute. I think those lectures really are impres
sive, revealing a side o f my father that very few people know, and
I hope therefore that they w ill finally be published" (personal
communication, 1996). I am grateful to Professor Kohut also for
his suggestions regarding the organization and content of Part IV.
My old friend and former editor, Natalie Altman, kindly advised
me regarding publication o f the present volume. The editorial
assistance o f John Kerr and Nancy J. Liguori of The Analytic Press
has been invaluable in preparing the manuscript for publication.
I am grateful to m y son, Franz Seitz, Ph.D., for sharing his
expertise with me regarding linguistics, psycholinguistics, and
cognitive science, and also for his technical assistance, including
the computer graphic reproductions o f Kohut's diagrams in the
“Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychology." I extend especially
warm thanks to Randi Rubovits-Seitz, M.D., whose help and
encouragement have sustained me every step of the way.
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Introduction
Long before his developm ent of self psychology, Heinz Kohut
was considered by many o f his colleagues and students to be the
best theoretician and teacher at the Chicago Institute for
Psychoanalysis. Kohut took pride in his “intellectual and emo
tional commitment to classical analysis" (Kohut, 1978b, p. 932):
I had studied classical theory and knew it well. I knew it well
enough to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff. That
allowed me, in the metapsychology courses that I taught for
many years at the Chicago Institute, to deemphasize those parts
o f traditional theory that did not seem to be relevant and
explanatory and to emphasize those that did [pp. 932-933].
Even the framework that Kohut (1978b) proposed for self psy
chology stressed his commitment to traditional psychoanalysis.
He set him self three criteria for the formulation o f this theoreti
cal structure: First, “the new psychology of the self must remain
in an unbroken continuum with traditional psychoanalytic the
ory"; second, it must “not disregard the fact that the classical the
ories, especially as expanded in the form o f modern ego
psychology, though applicable in only a restricted area, are nei
ther in error nor irrelevant"; and third, the new theory “must not
be dogmatic and definitive, but open to change and capable of
further development" (p. 937).
I was a colleague, collaborator, coteacher, and friend of Kohut's
for over a decade at the Chicago Institute, prior to his develop
ment o f self psychology. He was a dedicated Freudian scholar,
theorist, clinician, and teacher throughout his psychoanalytic
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career. He emphasized the necessary complexity o f psychoana
lytic psychology and devoted much o f his creative energy to expli
cating and teaching that complexity. He succeeded in making the
intricacies of Freudian theory comprehensible—not by simplify
ing it, but by means of a unique, nonreductive synthesis.
Because current interest in Kohut's work has focused so com
pletely on self psychology, some o f his best thinking—particu
larly his synthesis of Freudian theory—is in danger o f being lost.
Most o f his writings have been collected in a series o f volumes,
The Search for the Self edited by Paul Ornstein (1978a,b, 1991a,b),
but many o f his pre-self-psychological writings consist o f book
reviews, panel discussions, and correspondence that do not
reveal the psychological depth and breadth o f Kohut's Freudian
vision. The chapter that Kohut and I coauthored on “Concepts
and Theories o f Psychoanalysis" (Kohut and Seitz, 1963) may
come closest to demonstrating his grasp o f psychoanalytic the
ory. Unlike most o f us, however, Kohut was at his very best in
explicating psychoanalytic theory when he was lecturing. With
that in mind, it occurred to me that perhaps the most effective
way o f presenting Kohut's synthesis o f Freudian theory would be
through a previously unpublished compendium o f his lectures on
psychoanalytic psychology, which I wrote some years ago in col
laboration with Kohut.
During the decade or so preceding his developm ent o f self
psychology, Kohut taught a two-year theory course on psychoan
alytic psychology to candidates at the Chicago Institute for
Psychoanalysis. Looking back on the experience some years later,
Kohut (1972-1976) described the course in the following way:
It was a two-year course given in the second and third years o f
the curriculum, and it dealt with psychoanalytic theory using a
mixture o f a chronological and a systematic approach. I gradu
ally developed in these courses an approach to the development
o f psychoanalysis from a chronological point o f view, from its
inception with Breuer's Anna O., and the conceptual scientific
breakthrough by Freud regarding the m eaning o f Anna O. on
“chimney sweeping." From those beginnings, I tried to show how
the subsequent sequence o f discoveries and o f theoretical for
mulations was not just an accidental developm ent, but seemed
to be, really, an unfolding o f a kind o f predeterm ined schedule
o f discovery and formulation, which, on the whole, I think could
be shown rather nicely. First, there was a crude conceptualiza
tion, the penetration to hidden material as i f one w ere opening
an abscess, disregarding all the intervening structures. This was
