ABSTRACT
In the interactive dimension of psychoanalysis as it has evolved within object relations theory, ego psychology, and the study of the self and identity, the one-way vector of drive theory has been superseded by a feedback loop of interaction which connects deep internal processes with external objects and the group and cultural environment. The focal point of these models and theories remains, however, the unit organism. Interactive constructs imply that the person is a product of group experience and that the individual life merges with the life of others at all times, but such a standpoint does not directly address the group milieu itself.
