PEP | Browse | Read - Kohut: A Book Review Essay: Because it emerged slowly out of evolving theory and practice, Kohut's work is much harder to bring into focus than revisions based on a concise doctrine, or a simple model, or a special animus. Ornstein (in Kohut, 1978) offers a useful guide, but of course he views the system from within the system, where empathy is already given such a singular position that it can by itself account for the development of the theory. The outside critic will have to first cast the organically developing theory into a form that feels like a progressively developing argument before he can place it in the field of contesting theories.

Friedman, L. (1980) Kohut: A Book Review Essay: Because it emerged slowly out of evolving theory and practice, Kohut's work is much harder to bring into focus than revisions based on a concise doctrine, or a simple model, or a special animus. Ornstein (in Kohut, 1978) offers a useful guide, but of course he views the system from within the system, where empathy is already given such a singular position that it can by itself account for the development of the theory. The outside critic will have to first cast the organically developing theory into a form that feels like a progressively developing argument before he can place it in the field of contesting theories.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 49:393-422

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