Discussion

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Notes

¹Kohut makes a point of this in his 1966 paper.

²If I were to state my own view here, I would seriously attempt to change the concept of stage, but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.

³Klein and Bion are probably among the two or three most cited psychoanalysts in the world.

⁴Here, of course, I amnot including his newviews on the instincts and the Ego as an inhibitory, transforming structure.

⁵Jones powerfully urged Freud to combat Rank's new theory positing the central importance of birth anxiety.

⁶First introduced in the paper On Narcissism (Freud, 1914).

⁷It is rewarding that an analyst who has opened up the Freud Archives is one of the authors in this volume (Blum, this issue).