Metapsychology, the Self, and the Tragic A Reply to Stolorow’s and Teicholz’s Responses

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Notes

¹ Jonathan makes this point in his Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life (2003).

² This understanding is clearest in What Is Called Thinking (1954/1968).

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John Hanwell Riker

John Riker, PhD, for the past three decades has been devoted to exploring the relation of psychoanalysis, especially Kohutian self psychology, to ethics and philosophical anthropology. He has written four books intersecting psychoanalysis and ethics (most recently,Exploring the Life of the Soul).  John has been a professor of philosophy at Colorado College for over half a century and been named Professor of the Year a record four times, and advisor of the year a record three times. He was the initial recipient of the award Colorado College established to recognize someone who most promotes diversity and inclusion on campus. He was the Kohut Distinguished Professor at the University of Chicago in 2003. He and his spouse, Marcia Dobson, established The Dobson/Riker Professorship for Psychoanalysis, Self, and Creativity at Colorado College, a unique professorship in American academia.