[[Lacan]] begins (-- in 1953) -- to analyze in detail the function of [[speech]] in [[psychoanalysis]].
[[Lacan]] emphasizes that [[speech]] is essentially an [[intersubjective]] process.
"The allocution of the [[subject]] entails an allocutor" and therefore "the locutor is constituted in it as [[intersubjectivity]]."<ref>{{E}} p.49</ref>
The term '"[[intersubjectivity]]' " draws attention to the importance of [[language]] in [[psychoanalysis]] and emphasizes the fact that the [[unconscious]] is "transindividual."
[[Psychoanalysis]] is thus to be conceived in [[intersubjective]] rather than intrasubjective terms.
--- By 1960 the term '"[[intersubjectivity]]' " has come to acquire negative connotations for [[Lacan]].
It is now associated, not with [[speech]] as such, but with the notions of reciprocity and symmetry that characterize the [[dual relationship]];<ref>{{S8}} p.20</ref> that is, with the [[imaginary]] rather than with the [[symbolic]].
Indeed, the experience of [[transference]] is precisely what undermines the notion of [[intersubjectivity]].<ref>Lacan. 1967</ref>
'''Intersubjectivity''' refers to the "common sense," shared [[meanings]] constructed by people in their interactions with each other and used as an everyday resource to [[interpret]] the [[meaning]] of elements of [[social]] and [[cultural]] [[life]].
The [[French]] [[philopsopher]] [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] argued that in making choices in life we effectively make choices for all [[human]]s as what is chosen is always the better choice, and what is better for one is better for all.
This is also called '[[intersubjectivity]]'.
For [[Lacan]], the [[analytic]] experience is a dialogue on the [[symbolic]] place of [[full]] [[speech]], an interaction between two [[subjective]] [[desire]]s.
The [[intersubjective]] relationship between the [[analysand]] and the [[analyst]].
[[Psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] as a [[symbolic]] interaction between two [[subject]]s.
Referring again to [[Freud]]’s explanation of [[transference]] in [[The Interpretation of Dreams]] (1900), [[Lacan]] reported in the former text that "transference…gave its name to the mainspring of the intersubjective link between analyst and analysand."<ref>Lacan 1977g[1957]:170</ref>
<blockquote>I am astounded that no-one has ever thought of objecting to me, given certain of the terms of my doctrine, that the transference alone is an objection to intersubjectivity. I even regret it, seeing that nothing is more true: it refutes it, it is its stumbling block.<ref>Lacan 1995b[1967]:4</ref></blockquote>
