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Splitting, horizontal and vertical

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Heinz Kohut has emphasised in his Self psychology the distinction between horizontal and vertical forms of splitting.[1] Traditional psychoanalysis saw repression as forming a horizontal barrier between different levels of the mind - so that for example an unpleasnt truth might be accepted superficially but denied in a deeper part of the psyche.[2] Kohut contrasted with this vertical fractures of the mind into two parts with incompatible attitudes separated by mutual disavowal.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ H. Kohut, The Analysis of the Self (1971) p. 79
  2. ^ O. Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 145
  3. ^ H. Kohut, The Analysis of the Self (1971) p. 177 and p. 185
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