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Heinz Kohut Quotes

1913–1981 Austria

Heinz Kohut (3 May 1913 – 8 October 1981) was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst best known for his development of self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practice of analytic and dynamic treatment approaches.

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"The antithesis to narcissism is not the object relation but object love."
- Page 4

Forms and Transformation of Narcissism (1966)

"States the self may expand far beyond the borders of the individual, or it may shrink and become identical with a single one of his actions or aims."
- Page 4

Forms and Transformation of Narcissism (1966)

"The self in the psychoanalytic sense is variable and by no means coextensive with the limits of the personality as assessed by an observer of the social field."
- Page 4

Forms and Transformation of Narcissism (1966)

"The creative individual, whether in art or science, is less psychologically separated from his surroundings than the non-creative one; the "I-you" barrier is not as clearly defined."
- Page 17

Forms and Transformation of Narcissism (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Heinz Kohut (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.