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- Title
Relationality in Kohut's psychology of the self.
- Authors
Son, Angella
- Abstract
In this essay, I will posit that Kohut's psychology of the self portrays relationality and that its relationality can be categorized into the explicit aspects. I will also put forth the six aspects of relationality contained in Kohut's psychology of the self as relational, dynamic, wholistic, unilateral, mutual, and doxological and they can be summarized as following: (1) Relational: Narcissism is not self-love but is a particular kind of object relationship; (2) Dynamic: The most central self is dynamic or agentic and not defined in substantival attributes; (3) Wholistic: The whole of the self is important; (4) Unilateral: In order for one's self to develop, one is in need of and at the receptive end of another's empathy; (5) Mutual: Others’ empathy is needed in maintaining the health of the developed selves; and (6) Doxological: Joy and thanksgiving are natural expression of developed selves.
- Subjects
SOCIAL psychology; NARCISSISM; HEALTH; EMPATHY; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF-acceptance
- Publication
Pastoral Psychology, 2006, Vol 55, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0031-2789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11089-006-0033-2