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Stern focuses on the interaction of the intrapsychic and the interpersonal to understand how we create "representations" or "subjective psychic reality." He identifies five processes available to the infant to restructure her or his interpersonal reality to a "subjective psychic reality." Traditional psychodynamic operations are one of these processes. Stern's main focus is on the other four processes. The second process is the development of such capacities as perception, stimulus barrier,