Heinz Kohut

Question 1

The Analysis of the Self

Answer 1

Replaces the ego

Question 2

Kohut emphasized the process
by which the self evolves from ____ and _____ image to a ____ and
_____ sense of ____ ______.

Answer 2

vague and undifferentiated
clear and precise
sense of individual identity

Question 3

Kohut focused on the early _______-____ relationship as the key to understanding later
development

Answer 3

early mother-child relationship

Question 4

True or False
According to Kohut, infants require adult caregivers not only to gratify physical
needs but also to satisfy basic psychological needs.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

In caring for both physical and

psychological needs, adults or______, treat infants as if they had a sense of self.

Answer 5

selfobjects

Question 6

Selfobjects should treat the infants according to their behavior. Parents will act with warmth, coldness, or indifference depending in part
on their infant’s behavior. Through the process of _____ _____, the infant takes in the selfobject’s responses as pride, guilt, shame, or envy—all attitudes that eventually form the building blocks of the self.

Answer 6

empathic interaction

Question 7

Kohut (1977) defined the self

Answer 7

“the center of the individual’s psychological universe”

Question 8

The self gives unity and consistency to one’s experiences, remains relatively stable over time, and is the center of initiative and a ____ of ____

Answer 8

“a recipient of impressions”

Question 9

_____ ____ is also the child’s
focus of interpersonal relations, shaping how he or she will relate to parents and other
selfobjects.

Answer 9

The self

Question 10

T or F

Kohut (1971, 1977) believed that infants are naturally narcissistic

Answer 10

True