ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part explores the relationship between triangulation as a concept and its relationship to the notions of communication and insight. It explores what the author calls a fault line in academic psychology, which essentially concerns the split between the nomothetic approach and the ideographic. The part explains the philosophical and psychoanalytic notions of what the author calls "thirdness"—of obvious relevance to the exploration of the psychic experience of triangulation. It shows the question of a capacity for intersubjectivity and presents many difficulties in psychoanalytic treatment. The part examines the observation that the achievement of becoming a subject can seem to make the assumption of a capacity for intersubjectivity, which can be said to constitute another fault line in psychoanalysis. It concludes by proposing what he calls a psychic atopia, or a kind of allergy to other minds.
