If the notion of analytic neutrality is grasped as a grandiose defensive illusion to be given up and mourned, with what shall it be replaced? What is an alternative stance appropriate for the analytic situation recognized as a dyadic intersubjective system of reciprocal mutual influence, to which the organizing activities of both participants make ongoing, codetermining contributions? We have characterized this stance as one of empathic-introspective inquiry. Such inquiry seeks to illuminate the principles unconsciously organizing the patient's experience (empathy), the principles unconsciously organizing the analyst's experience (introspection), and the oscillating psychological field created by the interplay between the two (intersubjectivity).
Robert Stolorow
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