Main description:

This book offers a way of understanding and making use of a critical dimension of the analytic experience that is rarely spoken about by psychotherapists and analysts: the ordinary, moment-to-moment experience of the analyst in the analytic setting.

Contents:

On Becoming a Subject -- The Freudian Subject -- Toward an Intersubjective Conception of the Subject: The Kleinian Contribution -- Winnicott's Intersubjective Subject -- The Analytic Third: Working with Intersubjective Clinical Facts -- Projective Identification and the Subjugating Third -- The Concept of Interpretive Action -- Analyzing the Matrix of the Transference-Countertransference -- Personal Isolation: The Breakdown of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity -- Questions of Analytic Theory and Practice