TY - JOUR A1 - Orange, Donna M. T1 - An Expanded View of Intersubjectivity in Infancy and its Application to Psychoanalysis JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 02 (1992), pp. 561-565. Y1 - 1992 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Orange, Donna M. T1 - The Cocreation of Fantasy and the Transformation of Psychic Structure JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 077-103. N2 - Much psychoanalytic vocabulary is embedded in discourses, or languagegames, that involve philosophical assumptions that most post-Freudian, relational, and intersubjective systems analysts no longer accept. Terms like transference, projective identification, and representation, however carefully redefined for contemporary purposes, cannot escape their connotative history and loading. It is suggested that psychoanalytic thinkers and practitioners remain open to questioning and being questioned about our use of words, their impact on our attitudes toward our patients, and about our responsibility for disavowed assumptions about human nature and reality. Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Orange, Donna M. T1 - The desire for self-creation JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 129-140. N2 - Although Gerhardt's commentary points to substantial points of agreement between us – the claim that human being is embodied being, the critique of rationalisms, and the resistance to relativisms – we also have important differences. The chief of these, from my point of view, concern (1) the functions of theoretical language, (2) the level of commitment psychoanalysts owe to traditional language for the sake of community and continuity, and (3) the issue of reification. My. Reply suggests that Gerhardt has confused the functions of expressive and theoretical language that, for the sake of a >gossipy connection,< she seems to deprive the psychoanalytic community of the self-reflective criticism of its own shared assumptions and that there is a difference between metaphor and the misplaced concreteness that is sometimes called reification. Y1 - 2003 ER -