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On Empathy 论共情[1]
Kohut(1981) [2]
This article, a reprint of the transcript of Heinz Kohut’s last public address, is Kohut’s final attempt to clarify the role of empathy in psychoanalysis. Kohut defines empathy as a method of psychoanalytic investigation, and then explores the ways in which empathy itself can be a therapeutic response. He describes how empathy’s role has been misinterpreted and misunderstood, and he describes the various forms in which empathic understanding may be communicated to the patient.
这篇文章重印自海因茨·科胡特最后一次公开演讲的打印本,是科胡特最后一次尝试阐述共情在精神分析中的作用。科胡特将共情定义为精神分析研究的一种方法,随后探索了在治疗中的共情本身可以是一种疗愈性回应的方式。他描述了共情的角色是如何被曲解和误解的,他还描述了共情性理解可以传达给患者的各种形式。
Keywords: Kohut; empathy; vicarious introspection; method of investigation; psychoanalysis; self psychology
关键词:科胡特;共情;替代性内省;调查方法;精神分析;自体心理学
Kohut, H. . (2010). On empathy.International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 5(2), 122-131. DOI: 10.1080/15551021003610026
I will summarize in my own way. I would think that many of those who spoke during these meetings, belonging to the intimate circle of my friends and collaborators, have already begun to digest some of my work during the last year or two that is still far from publication, and is not——I'm very persnickety about such things——in that final form that I try to insist on. But I do believe that among the things that I have been writing about, in a book called How Does Analysis Cure? a 150-page essay on the concept of defenses and resistances seen in the light of self psychology, and a broad statement on issues of empathy on various levels of meaning of this term, are the most important ones. And I will address myself to the issue of empathy despite the fact that some couple of years ago I kept saying I'm sick of that topic. It seems to be nonproductive. I hear over and over again the same arguments, and they are so far off my meaning that I had the impression that I was wasting my time, my emotions, my energy that I could use on new ideas and new work. But idiot that I am, I still don't know, despite a fairly long life, and hopefully some attainment of wisdom, that when people keep asking you the same damn question, something must be wrong!