Psychology Today | 18.11.2025 04:15
In a recent post, I outlined several problems with the concept of the analytic third, a central idea in relational and intersubjective psychoanalysis. That critique touched a deeper issue that underlies many debates in our field: psychoanalysis is not one unified discipline. It contains two very different philosophical traditions (Kernberg, 2001), each with its own view of mind, truth, and analytic work.
