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Our contributors have brought us closer to a clearer conceptualization of interaction within psychoanalysis. Without exception, they emphasize the necessity of viewing interaction from an intrapsychic perspective, which reflects the current trend to understand interaction as signifying more than the interpersonal/social. Each contributor, with varying degrees of emphasis, supports Schwaber's insistence that, for interaction to be considered analytic, it must be considered in terms of experience. The difference seems to revolve on the emphasis placed on whether interaction is considered from the standpoint of a one-person or a two-person model.
Yet, as Gill and Richards point out in their discussions, even Schwaber and Goldberg, who emphasize a one-person model perspective of interaction, leave room for consideration of the analyst's psychic activity in the analytic process.
In his final statement on the one-person-two-person dilemma, Gill provides us with his own evocative view. He suggests finding a place for interaction in our psychoanalytic lexicon by viewing it in terms of a complementary series of the innate/intrapsychic and the experiential/intrapsychic.