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Psychoanal Rev. 2021 Jun;108(2):215-237. doi: 10.1521/prev.2021.108.2.215.
The author seeks to articulate the philosophical significance of Heinz Kohut's original theory of the self by showing (a) how it explains the basis of our ability to create and be motivated by personal ideals; (b) how it transforms our understanding of ethical life by showing why it is in one's self-interest to become an empathic, respectful person who embodies the moral virtues as articulated by Aristotle; and (c) how it reverberates with profound insights into what it means to be human by some of the most esteemed philosophers in the Western philosophic tradition, especially Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The author concludes by critically responding to the intersubjectivist critique of Stolorow and Atwood that Kohut's notion of "self" is a reified, metaphysical concept.
作者试图通过以下方式阐明 Heinz Kohut 原创的自我理论的哲学意义：(a) 它如何解释我们创造和受个人理想激励的能力的基础；(b) 它如何通过展示为什么成为一个富有同理心、尊重他人并体现亚里士多德所阐述的道德美德的人符合自身利益，从而改变我们对伦理生活的理解；以及 (c) 它如何通过与西方哲学传统中一些最受尊敬的哲学家（尤其是柏拉图、亚里士多德、黑格尔和尼采）对人类意义的深刻见解产生共鸣。作者最后批判性地回应了 Stolorow 和 Atwood 的主体间主义批判，即 Kohut 的“自我”概念是一个具体化的、形而上学的概念。
