ABSTRACT
The concept of number, as it applies both to metapsychology and to technique in psychoanalysis, has been receiving increased attention in recent years from theorists representing various perspectives. One reason for this interest has been the upsurge of intersubjective concepts in analytic theory, which have functioned to blur the distinctions between such traditional notions as one-person vs. two-person psychologies, or independence vs. interdependence. In consequence, theorists have been prompted to rethink what these concepts might mean, and whether it still makes sense to speak of the traditional one of the individual subject (i.e., the analysand or the analyst, taken individually) or even the two of analysand and analyst in interaction with each other.
