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In this article, I attempt to show why and how Kohut's concept of the self is not a reified concept (and, thus, defeats postmodern critiques) and how it is the only nonreligious ground that can be given for why one ought to become an ethical person. I also show why his bipolar model of the self is dynamic and makes phenomenological sense.