ABSTRACT

In this chapter the author recalls that his first objections appeared in paper "L'enfant modele", which had many arguments that were also present in Wolff's subsequent paper. He regrets that many of them have missed the possibility of becoming acquainted with these exchanges. Wolff's paper is not outside the scope of meeting. He addresses the work of two authors, Daniel Stern and Robert Emde, with whom Peter Fonagy is a close collaborator. However, in authors' opinion, the whole debate turned into a dialogue of the deaf, and in order to avoid the repetition of such a situation the author wants to take some time to develop two preliminary points. It is obvious that the analytic community is split, and as a consequence healing idea arose of searching for a common ground. By now this has led to somewhat artificial concordances, such as meeting of Kleinian concept of projective identification with intersubjectivity and enactment, used today by the "intersubjectivists."