Kohut and Contextualization:
Toward a Post-Cartesian Psychoanalytic Theory
Introduction:
George E. Atwood, PhD
Presenter:
Robert D. Stolorow, PhD
This article portrays Heinz Kohut as a pivotal transitional figure in the development of a post-Cartesian, fully contextual psychoanalytic psychology. Despite his contextualiziation of narcissism and movement toward phenomenology and perspectivalism, remnants of Cartesian, isolated-mind thinking persisted in his metapsychology of the self and in his view of analytic empathy.