![]() ![]() The approach to analysis that Kohut developed, called “self psychology,” advised empathizing with the narcissist. ![]() Later, two Austrian émigré psychoanalysts, Otto Kernberg and Heinz Kohut, took an interest in patients who were troubled by “emptiness and meaninglessness” and who seemed, to the two analysts, simultaneously insecure, aggressive, and self-absorbed. The concept of pathological narcissism dates back, Dombek explains, to the end of the nineteenth century, when the English doctor and writer Havelock Ellis described sexual behavior animated by attraction to one’s own self as “Narcissus-like.” Freud picked up on this, labelling as narcissistic the self-sufficiency of certain confident women and the behavior of homosexual men. PHOTOGRAPH BY MONDADORI PORTFOLIO / GETTY ![]() It’s easy to agree that people today are too self-absorbed, but the new book “The Selfishness of Others,” by Kristin Dombek, explores the deep narcissism inherent in that very view of the world. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |