Irreducible subjectivity and interactionism: A critiqueFootnote¹

1. 1 An earlier version of this paper, entitled ‘The objectivity/subjectivity debate in psychoanalysis’, was presented at the ‘Freud at the threshold of the 21st century’ conference in Jerusalem on 15 December 1999.

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