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- Title
תרומתה של פסיכולוגיית העצמי לממד הרוחני בפסיכואנליזההרהורים על 'פסיכולוגיית–העצמי וחקר רוח אדם' מאת היינץ קוהוט
- Authors
קולקה, רענן
- Abstract
For an entiregeneration, the future development of psychoanalysis has been waiting for the rightful-and-proper absorption of the spiritual dimension into the weave of psychoanalytic metatheory and of its therapeutic practice. In this paper I posit self psychology as the paradigm most endowed with the capacity for making a unique contribution to the study of the spiritual dimension in the human psyche, as well as in the encounter between man and his other. In my view, the conceptual transition from the guilty man of Freudto the tragic man of Kohut through to what I would call mystic man is the ethical core of this potential contribution of self psychology. The feasibility of a spiritual psychoanalytic philosophy depends upon our willingness to depart from a conception of psychoanalysis based strictly on the orientation of separateness as a developmental trajectory and clinical ideal, and to adopt in turn a psychoanalysis anchored in a unifying world view. Such a meta-theoretical change will lead the psychoanalytic idea in its entirety from being a disciplineof the Psyche to become the an ethic of the Spiritual. The paper delineates four crucial contributions that make self psychology a trail-blazer in the systematic theorization of the spiritual within psychoanalysis: First, the self as a supra-concept transformed psychoanalysis from dealing with the structural essence of the psyche onto investigating unstructured regions of experience and existence of the human spirit. Second, the absolute, and the human ability to be part of it, as the core-quality of the special human oscillation between immersion and merger (by “oscillation" I mean that which constitutes the contextual matrix of selfobject relationships between a person and his other). Third, the transformativity of narcissistic energy that defines our existential condition as a constant flow between human emergence into an individual existence, on the one hand, and human dissolving into transcendental states of being of a supra-individual existence, on the other hand. The final area of contribution is therapeutic change, now no longer satisfied merely with change-creating-movement within existing materials, but which daringly assumes the possibility of creating spiritual states which are as yet non-existent but deserve to come into being. I conclude the paper by applying the spiritual dimension of self psychology to certain areas of political thought, and offer a challenging reflection upon the existential condition of the State of Israel.
- Publication
Ma'arag: Israeli Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010, Vol 1, p263
- ISSN
2413-290X
- Publication type
Article