ABSTRACT
Kohut’s concluding remarks in his 1984 posthumously published work was a clear reminder that the central focus of self psychology was its attention to the development and analysis of the transferences: “Self psychology does not advocate a change in the essence of analytic technique. The transferences are allowed to unfold and their analysis—the understanding of the transference reactions, their explanation in dynamic and genetic terms—occupies, now as before, the center of the analyst’s attention” (p. 208). Kohut has emphasized that it is through this process that the patient’s arrested development can be set in motion and come to completion.
