ABSTRACT

In chapter I we saw a beginning convergence of ways in which we might usefully formulate units of l-self structure to accommodate the complex processes we typically include among the dynamic functions of the mind. In the clinical intuition that drove Kernberg's (1966) formulation, and more explicitly in the work of Loewald (1980) and Ogden (1986), we saw proposals for formulating the basic units of our dynamic selves as personally directed interactions between self and nonself that govern our ways of going about things in our worlds. This chapter delineates as fully as is currently possible one way of construing these basic self structures.'