Intersubjectivity. Crises of representation

The postulation of an intersubjective dimension renders it possible to tackle problematics so far considered external to psychoanalysis, and that might enter our theory and our practice as conflict. Subjectivity qua psychoanalytic concept based on the Two will coexist disharmoniously, and overlap, with the dimension that takes the identity bases as its point of departure and that has been the support for our understanding of the functioning of a subject's psychic apparatus up to now. Being equal to oneself and increasing and strengthening one's singularity on the basis of strongly rooted convictions differs greatly from becoming a subject and progressively belonging in each situation (in each dimension). In this way, a model is instituted in which two ideas that propose their own logics will have to coexist, namely, that of the integration within a homogenous world, and that of dispersion within a heterogeneous world. Intersubjectivity thus thought contemplates a work based on doing with pure difference as its point of departure, and moves away from those who associate intersubjectivity with empathy, with a single mode of functioning from which all the significations of the various acts during one's life, acts that are resignified in a transferential mode, will stem.