ABSTRACT
“Intersect” is a word for a process that both parties recognize when they say “we”. “Intersect” is, of course, a metaphor. Intersects may not exist in the same sense in which Oxford Street exists but the therapists take the view that some intersects are realms to which “Highest”, “Deepest”, “Beyond”, “Within”, and other such spacial terms for the ineffable may apply. The concept of a common ground of mental processes keeps appearing and disappearing in various forms in the history of psychotherapy. Some have speculated that all the mental processes of some people intersect; that is, are in communication, albeit perhaps unconsciously. Hinshelwood explicitly denies that Melanie Klein believed in that kind of intersect. There is no intersect of the kind which would be created by a mental space equally occupied by two people, in which important transactions take place on a plane removed from what can be photographed.
