@article{ref1,
title="Empathy's romantic dialectic: Self psychology, intersubjectivity, and imagination",
journal="Psychoanalytic psychology",
year="2001",
author="Klugman, David",
volume="18",
number="4",
pages="684-704",
abstract="The author views Kohut's conceptualization of psychoanalytic empathy and its subsequent development by intersubjectivity theorists as an extension of a larger Romantic epistemological tradition in which the role of imagination in mental life is both central and precise. To illuminate this argument, the author reconsiders Kohut's distinction between the &quot;presence of empathy&quot; and &quot;empathy as a mode of observation.&quot; Next is described the way in which the ambivalence represented by this distinction is resolved through intersubjectivity theory. Finally, the author explores several key aspects of the Romantic imagination as a response to Cartesianism in order to evolve an understanding of empathy as a bilateral procedure mediating self-experience and experience of the other. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)<p />",
language="",
issn="0736-9735",
doi="10.1037/0736-9735.18.4.684",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0736-9735.18.4.684"
}