ABSTRACT
The methodologist Abraham Kaplan explained that a concatenated theory is one in which the components constitute a network of relations that form an identifiable configuration or pattern. The explication of Freud's theories that he presented in his lectures on psychoanalytic psychology appeared to have grown out of his own efforts to understand psychoanalytic theory and to help students comprehend it in a coherently organized way. Kohut occasionally referred to a type of intellect that he called an "organizing intelligence" by which he meant not just an organized mind, but one that is continually organizing the information it encounters. Freud's attitude toward "simplification and glossing over" of the "rich diversity of psychic events" was mentioned previously in connection with his Foreword to Nunberg's treatise. Kohut's explication of Freudian theory was neither overgeneralized nor oversimplified, but consistently combined particularistic and holistic approaches another noteworthy example of syncretism.
