Empathy and Historical Understanding
Empathy, for Kohut, always involves an awareness of difference, of the distinction between the empathizing self and the empathized other. Since empathy is decidedly not sympathy, we can and must—Dr. Kohut argues—empathize with people we find decidedly unsympathetic. Dr. Kohut will demonstrate that history written from an empathic perspective, that is, from the perspective of […]