Concept
Narcissistic transference
In self psychology, the mirror and idealizing transferences through which a patient uses the analyst to supply missing functions of the self; Kohut later called them selfobject transferences.
Development
1971
introduced by Heinz Kohut
In The Analysis of the Self (1971)
Relations
- 1971 diverges from Transference
Treats what is transferred as thwarted developmental needs rather than conflict.
- 1971 derives from Narcissism
Kohut gives narcissism a line of development separate from object love and names the transferences after it: the analyst is invested with narcissistic rather than object libido. Freud had held that narcissistic patients form no transference at all.
- 1971 derives from Selfobject
In these transferences the patient experiences the analyst as a self-object, a part of the self that supplies its missing functions; Kohut later renamed them selfobject transferences.
- 1971 derives from Grandiose self
The mirror transference is the therapeutic revival of the grandiose self, as the idealizing transference is of the idealized parental imago.
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References
- The Analysis of the Self1971Evidence for a relation