On the first page of her Introduction to Becoming a Subject, Cavell notes “a tendency in psychoanalysis to lose sight of the fact that we are animals in a real, physical world”. Thus, when she asserts her ‘interpersonal’ view of mind, it is with reference not only to other minds, but to the ‘real, material world’ within which we subjects are ‘embedded.’ For Cavell, internal and external are “inextricable” (p. 37), and a person's subjective and objective aspects cannot be strictly separated (p. 3).