ABSTRACT
By 1965, there had developed an acrimonious split in the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis between the followers of Heinz Kohut and the followers of Franz Alexander. Autho's analyst, Albrecht Meyer, said he had analyzed Alexander’s daughter, so it was clear whose side he was on. The author live and he practice psychoanalysis in a culture of narcissism. He noted in his diary in 1980 he agreement with Eissler. He taught one that an increased narcissistic cathexis of the superego and ego ideal lead to rigidity, compulsiveness, intolerance, and depression, but an increased narcissistic cathexis of the ego leads to increased expectations and self-affirmation. The dominant theory of narcissism in the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis was the work of Kohut. Ego psychology, Alexander’s work, and even Freud’s psychoanalysis itself, faded into the background and was defended by only a few remaining analysts such as his teacher and friend, the late Peter Giovaccini.
