ABSTRACT
Though phenomenology itself has a long history now in continental philosophy, its robust presence in psychoanalysis is truly new and challenges the certainties that have formed psychoanalytic bedrock from the outset. Chief among these we must consider the view that pathology resides in the patient, who brings it to the psychoanalyst for diagnosis and cure. Intersubjectivity theory, in its phenomenological form, is a contextualism holding that psychological trouble forms, develops, and may be healed only in intersubjective fields formed from two or more experiential worlds interweaving.
