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Shill's (2004) claim that the intersubjective perspective does not address conflict and defense is glaringly mistaken.
In his article on signal anxiety, Shill (2004) declared that “the intersubjectivist approach does not address issues of conflict and defense at all” (p. 119). Astoundingly, he seems to have made this absurd pronouncement without being aware of any of the numerous articles and chapters my collaborators and I have written on the subject of psychological conflict and defense over the past three decades, one of which was published in this very journal (Stolorow & Brandchaft, 1987). Our aim has never been to defocus emotional conflict but rather to contextualize it—that is, to locate it within constitutive intersubjective systems.