At the end of his life, Kohut articulated the twinship experience, which has become a cornerstone of self psychology. But, I believe, it has been insufficiently conceptualized. In Kohut’s Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human, Amanda Kottler and I reflect on the twinship experience and develop it further. Picking up where Kohut left off, we illustrate a new and very different sensitivity to understanding psychoanalytic relational processes and ideas about human existential anguish, trauma, and the meaning of life. What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to live in this world? What is human anguish? In this upcoming volume (available September 2015) we aim to get to the heart of these existential queries through the lens of relational and intersubjective psychoanalysis.
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This is such an important book, extending Kohut’s significant concept of twinship, alter ego experience in development. How does one become a human among humans? And how can we understand twinship experiences across cultures when they have been unavailable or thwarted. When patient’s tell us that they don’t feel human, we are often in the realm of early traumatizing experiences where feeling one is not a human among humans begins, This important developmental concept has been lost, in my view, in Contemporary Self Psychology. I am looking forward to Koichi and Amanda’s book. Thank you for your book. It is already on my Amazon Prime list .
CONGRATULATIONS Kochi and Amanda.Kohut left us hanging and wanting more! Thank you for this further timely exploration of the twinship experience.
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful endorsement. I am looking forward to discussing this significant issue with many colleagues. Deeply appreciated.