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The intersubjective process can be defined as the largely unconscious communiction and meaning-giving processes occuring between the two universes formed by the inner psychic worlds of both the analyst and the analysand. As a result of these processes, both members of the analytic pair undergo changes within themselves and between each other.
From a theoretical perspective, the intersubjective approach aims to eliminate the duality of the subject as a self aware entity capable of self reflection and the object as something inherently existing and presented fort the subject's use. In doing so, it shifts the emphasis in psychoanalytic practice from inner psychic life (drives and their vicissitudes) to the relationship between psychic lives (simultaneous recognition and attunement). This approach requires reconsideration of concepts such as analyst's anonymity, the rule of abstinance, self-disclosure and countertransferance, which are fundamental to psychoanalytic practice.
In this text, the author explores the origins of intersubjective theory and presents the idea that the analytic process consists of unique moments in which both subject and object appear on the scene-sometimes one recedes so the other may emerge.