ABSTRACT
Most of the analysand’s actions during psychoanalytic treatment come in the form of narrations. As work progresses, a mass of narratives and fragmented stories that would defy survey is woven together to form intricate patterns that change and shift as the narrative context of the present takes on new forms. Some proponents of the hermeneutic-narrative model of psychoanalysis maintain that the goal of the treatment is to confer on the analysand a coherent and consistent life-story. The chapter reviews the issue of intersubjectivity not so much as one having to do with theoretical preferences, nor with new clinical procedures— in the sense that for example Kleinian theory and technique once might have been a clear deviation from classical psychoanalysis. The intersubjective model is in fact a reply to the very quest taken up by Balint. The intersubjective model is founded upon the conviction that psychoanalytic experience rests upon the unique human encounter.
