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In their North American application, many relational, self, and intersubjective field theories, intersubjective accounts tend to be experience-near and close to the phenomenological philosophical concepts. In their North American application of the contemporary intersubjective ego psychology and post-Kleinian post-Bionian perspectives, as well as in the many French perspectives, the conceptualizations of intersubjective processes and configurations preserve the importance of drive, the unconscious and the psychoanalytic metapsychology. Overlaps exist, mainly among the North American Intersubjective Ego psychology, Post-Bionian perspectives, and French perspectives. In North America, significant differences are sharpest between the French conceptualizations of Intersubjectivity and the dominant strands of Intersubjective thinking coming out of Self Psychology and Relational movement. In particular, there is a gap between the conditions under which theories are constructed in these two approaches, especially as it regards implication for psychoanalytic metapsychology. In Latin America , comparable account of convergences and divergences exists between the link perspective and the relational perspective on intersubjectivity. Based in post- Bionian British Object Relations and post-Lacanian French psychoanalytic thought, the link perspective, practiced in the group and family clinical context, adheres to the notion of Freudian infantile sexuality as the essential motivation, and does not involve paradigmatic change. However, the relational perspective, an heir to Ferenczi, Balint, Fairbairn, Bowlby, Winnicott, and Kohut, further develops ideas of contemporary North American contemporary Self, Relational and Intersubjective thinkers, such as Lichtenberg, Mitchell, Stern, Stolorow, Renik, Benjamin and others, contains a paradigmatic shift, where the analyst becomes a ‘facilitator’ of the analyst-patient relationship. The relational approach also expands the view of primary motivation beyond Oedipal desires, emphasizing play, attachment, and recognition, among others. Among the convergences between the link and relational approaches are the conceptualizations of the transference not just as a repetitive but also as a novel event. Both approaches also value ‘chance’ and ‘the event’ as psychic motivators. In Europe , various origins of the conception of intersubjectivity include a combination between the development of child analysis, the conception of projective identification, the extension of the notion of counter-transference, and the theoretical reflexion about the subject, the subjectivation process (Cahn) and the object. The field theory and the notion of enactment, originating in the Americas have also been influential. One of the features, specific to Europe, may be the enduring importance of Freud’s metapsychology, and clinically, in depth exploration of the difficulties encountered in analytic work with adolescence, borderline pathology, groups and psychosis. The main stream in Europe consider intersubjectivity as taking into account during the psychoanalytic treatment the presence of two subjects, with drives and the unconscious, both the patient and the analyst, each one acting on the other and having a transformation power, through what is shared, which evoke the role of the object in the development of a subject. In addition, European analysts define a nuanced spectrum of
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