The study of subjectivity in the analytic interaction is arguably the sine qua non of contemporary psychoanalysis, though of course that has not always been the case. The larger realm of psychoanalysis—for much of its history and for many reasons, including theoretical, cultural, and political ones—has privileged an allegiance to an objectivist stance.

In this series of penetrating essays, many of which have been previously published but are meaningfully contextualized herein by each