Transcendent Dimensions of the Self: A Spiritual Home for Self Psychology?

M. Dobson
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Both Jung and Kohut place the notion of the discovery of “self” at the center of their psychological theories. Yet where Jung sees this process of discovery as possible only through connecting with the archetypes, which are at once immanent and transcendent, Kohut seemingly veers away from any notion of this in his thought. This article discusses the similarities and differences between Jungian and Kohutian ideas regarding dimensions of self to suggest that Kohut’s discovery of a mature self through cosmic narcissism is indeed touched with overtones of transcendence and spirituality. Raanan Kulka’s work on Buddhism also opens up Kohut’s thought to these dimensions, and greatly increases the possibilities for considering self psychology in spiritual and ethical terms. The term spiritual is used throughout this essay as a sense of participating in a supraordinate being that grants the self a sense of meaning not explicable through everyday experience.
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自我的超越维度:自我心理学的精神家园?
荣格和科胡特都把发现“自我”的概念放在他们心理学理论的中心。然而,荣格认为这种发现过程只有通过与原型的联系才能实现,而原型既是内在的,又是超越的,科胡特似乎在他的思想中偏离了这一概念。本文讨论了荣格和Kohutian关于自我维度的观点的异同,表明Kohut通过宇宙自恋发现了一个成熟的自我,确实带有超越和灵性的色彩。拉南·库尔卡在佛教方面的工作也打开了科胡特对这些维度的思考,并极大地增加了从精神和伦理角度考虑自我心理学的可能性。“精神”这个词在整篇文章中都被用作一种参与一种超然存在的感觉,这种超然存在赋予了自我一种无法通过日常经验解释的意义感。
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