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Irving Solomon Replies:
It is difficult to respond to Arnold Goldberg's comments on my paper about the case of Mr. Z because his statements are too broad. Of course, it is true that the analyst's creativity originates out of the crucible of his own personal experience and the processing of his own countertransferences. My point, again repeated, is that Kohut made quite an error in the first phase of his treatment of Mr. Z but was courageous and candid enough to expose his faux pas. That he made his error into a component of a theory is another matter.
Unlike Dr. Goldberg, I am not dismayed by the fact that “… the analytic community, in sharp contrast to other sciences, must insist that there is nothing new under the sun.” We need colleagues constantly alerting us to the presentation of old concepts in original garb. In fact I have long had the fantasy of a journal devoted exclusively to the task of exposing old ideas masquerading as innovative concepts. We could call it something like The Emperor's New Clothes or Déja Vu.