The Search for the Self : Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1950-1978 (Paperback)

Foreword -- Introduction -- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann: A Story About the Disintegration of Artistic Sublimation -- August Aichhorn?Remarks After His Death -- On the Enjoyment of Listening to Music -- “The Function of the Analyst in the Therapeutic Process” -- Psychanalyse de la Musique (1951) -- “Natural Science and Humanism as Fundamental Elements in the Education of Physicians and Especially Psychiatrists” -- “‘Eros and Thanatos’: A Critique and Elaboration of Freud’s Death Wish” -- The Haunting Melody: Psychoanalytic Experiences in Life and Music (1953) -- Beethoven and His Nephew: A Psychoanalytic Study of Their Relationship (1954) -- “Modern Casework: The Contribution of Ego Psychology” -- “The Role of the Counterphobic Mechanism in Addiction” -- Introspection, Empathy, and Psychoanalysis -- Observations on the Psychological Functions of Music -- The Arrow and the Lyre: A Study of the Role of Love in the Works of Thomas Mann (1955) -- “Some Comments on the Origin of the Influencing Machine” -- “A Note on Beating Fantasies” -- “Looking Over the Shoulder” -- Childhood Experience and Creative Imagination -- Beyond the Bounds of the Basic Rule -- “Further Data and Documents in the Schreber Case” -- “The Unconscious Fantasy” -- The Psychoanalytic Curriculum -- Concepts and Theories of Psychoanalysis -- The Position of Fantasy in Psychoanalytic Psychology -- Some Problems of a Metapsychological Formulation of Fantasy -- Franz Alexander: In Memoriam -- Values and Objectives -- Autonomy and Integration -- “Correlation of a Childhood and Adult Neurosis: Based on the Adult Analysis of a Reported Childhood Case” -- “Termination of Training Analysis” -- “Some Additional ‘Day Residues’ of ‘The Specimen Dream of Psychoanalysis’” -- Forms and Transformations of Narcissism -- The Evaluation of Applicants for Psychoanalytic Training -- The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders