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Notes
1 1 Inspired by Winnicott’s notion of true self, Arnold Modell (1993) argued that the individual has a private self, present from the beginning of life. This private space is created as the free‐floating libido (i.e., libido which has been withdrawn from animate objects) is invested on inanimate interests. These are our favorite activities, hobbies, inclinations, and talents, which emerge from the early years of life, and may be regarded as “objects.” Modell goes as far as to claim that the private self is a better term than Winnicott’s true self, because the former represents the authenticity and genuineness of the self, in other words, the individual’s unique essence, whereas the latter implies that there is a generalized