ABSTRACT
To the achievements of either science or psychoanalysis, the notion that ‘Science is objective, psychoanalysis subjective,’ is too simple a response. Rather, each involves both that “subjective” person and that “objective” world. It is not enough to ask, ‘Which shall we believe?’ We need to ask ourselves, ‘How can we understand their coming together?’ In the same way, I do not think it sophisticated enough to say simply, ‘Experimental psychology is objective and scientific, psychoanalysis subjective and humanistic’ Each involves both “subjective” person and “objective” science, and the real question is, How can we use both the personal and the impersonal to understand the coming together of personal and impersonal? How can we combine, rather than oppose, the strategies of the two sciences?
