Enactments: An intersubjective perspective

We offer a critique and synthesis of classical and interpersonal views of e nactment. From an intersubjective standpoint, the study of enactment leads to a reconsideration of the nature of the psychoanalytic process. And enact ment becomes virtually synonymous with the psychoanalytic process. Enactmen ts are interactions of analysand and analyst with communicative and resisti ve meanings that bad to valuable insight and can constitute corrective emot ional experiences. Enactments that are recognized and defined become valuab le dramatizing moments that have condensing clarifying, and intensifying ef fects upon consciousness. The inevitable participation by the analyst in en actment is compatible with appropriate analytic discipline. A case will dem onstrate these paints.