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Any definition of interaction poses the peril of being over-inclusive to the point that all meaning is lost. Defining interaction requires looking microscopically into the heart of relatedness.
In psychoanalysis interaction generally is used in two ways. Interaction refers to the composite interplay that takes place between the two participants of psychotherapy, and interaction refers to a class of interventions, a specific mode.
Interaction in the generic sense can be understood along innumerable lines that logarithmically increase as the transferences in interpersonal relationships are considered. Considering the variety of interacting introjects manifested in the flow of multiple transient and enduring regressions in the psychotherapeutic interplay, varyingly contributed to by each participant, intrapsychically, the interpersonal dyad is a crowd.
Defining interaction in the generic sense includes recognition of the interrelated levels of constitutional and character defenses, the interplay of primary and secondary transference enactments, and the