Chessick R D
Psychoanal Q. 1980 Jul;49(3):456-73.
Kant and Kohut each present an earlier and a later philosophical system. Each author bases his two systems on a conception of the self which is importantly different from the earlier system to the later system. The later systems are more or less incompatible with the earlier systems but have the advantage of elegance and explanatory power beyond the earlier systems. This recognition of a fundamental change in paradigm is mandatory in order to avoid confusion in hopelessly trying to reconcile the later system of Kohut with traditional psychoanalysis, and to render clear the fact that Kohut's psychology of the self in the broad sense represents a fundamental departure from classical psychoanalysis and Freud's psychodynamic theory, just as Kant's ethical philosophy cannot be reconciled with Kant's critical philosophy. Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts will have to make a choice.
康德和科胡特各自都提出了一个早期哲学体系和一个晚期哲学体系。每位作者的两个体系都基于一种自我概念，而这种自我概念在早期体系和晚期体系之间存在着重大差异。晚期体系与早期体系或多或少不相容，但具有超越早期体系的优雅性和解释力。为了避免在绝望地试图调和科胡特的晚期体系与传统精神分析时产生混淆，并明确这样一个事实，即广义上的科胡特自我心理学代表了与经典精神分析和弗洛伊德心理动力学理论的根本背离，就如同康德的伦理哲学无法与康德的批判哲学相调和一样，精神病学家和精神分析学家将不得不做出选择。
