By Mario Jacoby
Fresh advancements in Freudian psychoanalysis, quite the paintings of Kohut and Winnicott, have ended in a convergence with the Jungian place.
The writer of this learn makes an attempt to beat the doctrinal adjustments among the various faculties of intensity psychology, whereas taking into consideration the attribute ways of every. via an in depth exam of the particular adventure of self, the method of individuation, narcissism and narcissistic character disease, the writer demonstrates some great benefits of a cross-fertilization of principles and methods for the pro analyst.
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Youngsters sometimes have the need to masturbate in front of a mirror or to try and see themselves through the eyes of their partner while making love. Through such identification they are essentially observing and loving themselves. The longing for the experience of self is also frequentIya motive for using 'mind-expanding' drugs. All this seems to indicate that tIle intense preoccupation of many young people with themselves is an important part of the process of finding tIleir own identity, an appropriate aspect of tIlis phase of development - it is, in other words, caused by Nemesis (or Fate).
The fact must also be mentioned that, contrary to common parlance, the child is not sucked, indeed it sucks actively' (Balint, 1937: 83). Balint tries to buttress his theory of primary object-love, which ultimately must be seen as mother-<:hild unity, with what he refers to as some additional 'clinical banalities', of which I shall select a few observations notably relevant to modern theories of narcissism. A basic assumption of Balint's, however, is that previous theories had regarded primary narcissism as 'by definition without any object'.
It seems to me that this sentence is precisely congruous with Jung's view of psychic energy. However, Freud immediately adds: 'But such an assertion has no relevance. ). In the course of tlle further development of psychoanalysis, later writers have often cited these passages as attesting to Freud's genius in anticipating further developments (Kohler, 1978: 1001- 58), since on the basis of recent research psychoanalysts now assume an undifferentiated instinctual drive in the infant, which is differentiated into libido and aggression only through pleasurable and unpleasurable experience with 'objects'.