Unlike third-person sciences, psychoanalysis is the science of the second person. Briefly tracing the history of our focus on a second person, this paper contrasts two different approaches-the dyadic and the dialogic, proposing the latter as the better model for our field and the one that marks our unique contribution to other disciplines.
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