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by this new structure. Insofar as the bi-personal field belongs to the present ‘here-and-now’ brought into being by the two subjects engaged in the psychoanalytic journey, the temporal dimension of individuals is overlooked, outlining a sort of “horizontal modellings of intersubjectivity” (Bohleber 2013. p. 812), a kind of a horizontal conception of the unconscious. III. Bd. Intersubjectivity – Subjectivation, Intersubjectivation In a different framework intersubjectivity is conceived as a process that takes place over time. The temporal dimension is captured by the concept of ‘subjectivation’, a term introduced in 1991 by Raymond Cahn to address the process of becoming a subject: this process is intersubjective in nature owing to the crucial role played by the object- environment right from the beginning (Cahn 1991, 1997, 2006). In recent years this terminology – becoming a subject, subjectivation, intersubjectivation – has been fortunate, replacing the preceding more common expression of development of the self, in French (Wainrib 2012) and in Italian (Bastianini 2014, Ruggiero 2015) psychoanalytic groups. III. Be. Intersubjectivity – the Subject and the Person These different uses of terms made up of “subject”, or built around it, call for a more detailed clarification of its meaning. This is what Stefano Bolognini puts forward when he highlights the different meanings of ‘interpsychic’, ‘intersubjective’ and ‘interpersonal’. Bolognini (2008; 2014a; 2014b; 2015a; 2015b; 2016) differentiates the “Interpsychic” from the “Intersubjective” and the “Interpersonal”: these three concepts are in some cases overlapping and interchangeable, but in his view frequently they differ from each other. He describes the “Subject” as a human being with a sufficiently coherent self-contact core, able to experience his/her emotions with a good sense of self-continuity. The cohesive perception of his/her own Self can be at work and can be intensive enough, even if the separation process is not completed and the personal boundaries are still scarcely defined (e.g., many artists are strongly subjective in spite of a low definition – at least partially – of their boundaries as persons). A “Person” is a human being with a well-defined identity, with very clear bodily and psychic boundaries in his/her self-representation, and with a clear enough psychic distinction from the other. A relevant part of his/her well-differentiated mental activity can be developed at a conscious level, of course with all the issues and defenses that psychoanalysis has explored; nevertheless, a Person can be defined as such even if having a tenuous contact with his/her subjectivity, as is described in many pathological cases. Because of that, “being a Subject”
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