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The profoundest appreciation of any thinker's ideas is surely to explore where they lead.
Establishing the theoretical role of the “other” in the elaboration of the intrinsically personal psychological world of the evolving self has been one of the foremost discernable challenges to psychoanalytic theory construction. At least since the moment Freud (1917) declared that the “shadow of the object [had] fallen upon the ego,” theorists, ranging in outlook from that of Melanie Klein to that of Margaret Mahler, and including such conceptual contrasts as Heinz Hartmann and Jacques Lacan, have grappled with the spectral presence-and absence-of the object. Indeed, in the introduction to their own important