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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 This private space is created as the free‐floating libido (i.e., libido which has been withdrawn from animate objects) is invested on inanimate interests.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 criterion about the amount of “trueness” an individual must achieve.

2 ² The RIGs and the evoked companions as well as the silent dialogue between the real and the evoked companions are highly consistent with Stern’s concept of the schema‐of‐being‐with‐the‐self (discussed in the section on the solitary self and introduced ten years later, in 1995), although Stern did not make an explicit connection between them.