Psychoanalysis, Heinz Hartmann and Me: Pursuit of the Love of Life

ABSTRACT

Using his personal experience as an analyst, the author demonstrates the contemporary value of Heinz Hartmann’s elaboration of the ego in the structural theory especially in the principle of the whole is larger than the sum of its parts.

KEYWORDS:

• Ego
• subjective
• integration
• doer
• whole person

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Melvin Bornstein

Melvin Bornstein, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.