Kohut's Freudian Vision [Paperback]

Part I: Kohut's Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychology (1958-1960). Three Periods in the Development of Psychoanalysis. How It All Began. The Dynamic and Topographic Points of View. Conflict, Transference, and Infantile Sexuality.Optimal versus Traumatic Frustration, Memory versus Hallucinations, and Daydreaming. Psychic Trauma and the Economic Point of View. Primal Repression and Actual Neurosis. The Genetic Point of View. Symptom Formation. Symptom Formation From a Longitudinal Perspective. Freud's Theory of Psychosis. Freud's Theory of Depression and Preoedipal Phobias. Chapter 7 in The Interpretation of Dreams. Chapter 7, Section A: The Forgetting of Dreams. Chapter 7, Section B: Regression. Chapter 7, Section B: Regression (continued). Chapter 7, Section C: Wish-Fulfillment. Chapter 7, Section C: Wish-Fulfillment (continued). Chapter 7, Section D: The Function of Dreams. Chapter 7, Section D: The Function of Dreams (continued). Chapter 7, Section E: Primary and Secondary Process. Chapter 7, Section F: The Unconscious, Consciousness, and Reality. The Second Phase in the Development of Psychoanalytic Theory. Melancholia. The Structural Model and Neutralization. Aggression. Aggression (continued): The Childhood Object and the Superego. The Ego Ideal: Censuring and Approving Parts of the Superego. Narcissism. The Dual Instinct Theory. Changes in the Concept of Anxiety. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety: Chapters 1 and 2. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety: Chapters 3 and 4. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety: Chapter 5. Part II: Concepts and Theories of Psychoanalysis (1963). Part III: Kohut's Method of Synthesizing Freudian Theory. Part IV: Kohut's Concepts of Narcissism and Self Psychology: Continuities with Freudian Theory.Heinz Kohut was arguably the most influential modern day psychoanalyst. Because current interest in Kohut's work has focused so completely on self psychology, howel³…