Further entanglements of the intersubjective and interpersonal spheres - Reply to commentary

This reply elucidates the ideas originally presented in "Countertransference: Our New Royal Road to the Unconscious" (PD 9/3, 1999) in acknowledgment of Irwin Hirsch's commentary (this issue). It refutes Hirsch's erroneous conception that my paper suggested that the personality of the analyst could be extricated from the interactional matrix of the psychoanalytic relationship and that persons could be separated from their minds. By drawing these false dichotomies, Hirsch only polemicizes rather than clarifies the complex relationship existing between an analyst's subjectivity and his or her personality.