ABSTRACT

The purpose of Part II of this work is to document and demonstrate the interactive dimension of psychoanalysis, that is, to show that it has evolved a multi-person psychology complementary to the more familiar intrapsychic model of the mind. There already exists within psychoanalysis a range of concepts compatible with the paradigm that has just been articulated and which embody the premises of (1) the centrality of human interaction; (2) the emergence of the individual and the group from a primal unity; and (3) the application of the principle of complementarity as a means of assimilating multiple dimensions of experience into a coherent theoretical perspective.