Maguire states that the leap from Newtonian physics to the quantum theory is analogous to that from traditional psychoanalysis to Kohut's theories. On the one hand, he says in several places that Kohut's emphasis on the analysis of the self does not in any way eliminate the classical oedipal orientation, but that they are complementary. On the other hand, the concept of the "supraordinated" position of the self is paramount. The author cites Kohut's stress on the importance of being aware of "the perspective of the patient's total self experience," as though Freud's orientation leaves out this consideration. To make his case in one instance, he speaks pejoratively about the "destruction of the Oedipus complex" as compared to self psychology in which the growth-promoting factors are emphasized. Thus he writes of two psychologies which may exist in complementary relationship, but he clearly subordinates the classical position to that of the position of self psychology.