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differences between interaction, interpsychic (Bolognini, Brusset), interpersonal (Bolognini) and intersubjectivity (Green, Roussillon). Overall , with full exposition of various psychoanalytic approaches to intersubjectivity within their own ‘cultural context bound’ terminologies, rich multidimensional multilayered picture of intersubjectivity potentially emerges , within which mutual cross-fertilizing could be achieved by learning to coexist and communicate with each other. More specifically, it is both possible and desirable to compare the conclusions reached by each of these approaches, not only as regards their conception of mental functioning and of the dysfunctions that generate symptoms and character pathologies, but also with respect to the therapeutic proposals that follow on from these. That kind of systematic comparison allows for a rich picture of divergences and convergences to be explored and nuanced. While the relation between brain and psychic activities is never direct, recent findings coming out of affective developmental neuroscience and neuroanalytic studies , seem to substantiate the value of various descriptively non-conscious and dynamically unconscious intersubjective connectivity in the context of early development and potentially in variety of nonverbal dialogical situations. How such findings are interpreted and applied to psychoanalytic dialogue and setting may depend on a particular psychoanalytic interest and point of view. Stated inclusively, the intersubjective paradigm shift and contextualization can be viewed as involving a reconceptualization of the status of the subject, in which all subjective phenomena, including the intrapsychic and relational organizations, are structured in and through their intersubjective contexts. Across all continents and plurality of conceptualizations, intersubjectivity, an important previously undertheorized psychoanalytic perspective brings into focus the subtleties of the analytic relationship and the two-person dimension of the analytic process. It guards against any absolutes, certitude, dogmatism or autocratic rigidity, including old and new orthodoxies. To the degree that it emphasizes bilateral conscious, preconscious and unconscious communication, it also sensitizes the analyst to the potential sources of nuanced knowing and ‘not knowing’ in both partners in the analytic inquiry.
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