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The fact that mothers and infants benefit from the process of recreating a state of mutual regulation after mismatching and dysregulation offers an entirely different perspective on what it means to be ‘‘good enough,’’ to grow, to heal. (6)the safety of nonretaliatory survival means that the uncontrollability and unpredictability of the other can become a source of joy. (7)But Aron was also careful to stress asymmetry along with mutuality, which made mutuality in practice seem less dangerous.

“I proposed that surviving destruction was exactly what the slave could not do for the master who did not recognize his subjectivity.

5 - “ My use of the idea of intersubjectivity, prior to the encounter with infancy research, was rooted in Habermas, whose book (Erkenntnis und Interesse [Know- ledge and Human Interests]) was eagerly awaited in Frankfurt in 1968. The book explicated the move that took critical social theory from the Marxian idea of human beings as producers of their world to that of communicators.

Ways to subvert oedipal binaries (or how do you become a "good enough" caregiver)“But then again imagine an entirely different outcome: an analyst who survives destruction of the object? It seems to me one of those moments that, if we are lucky enough to be exposed to genuinely different disciplines and traditions, we can recognize the homologue in two entirely unlike forms, sameness despite difference.

"Having studied Hegel in Frankfurt, in turn, I had felt a shock when reading Winnicott's (1971) "Use of an Object": when I asked my friend who had studied there with me to read it, she too spontaneously remarked, "It's just like Hegel"" (3)"if we are lucky enough to be exposed to genuinely different disciplines and traditions, we can recognize the homologue in two entirely unlike forms, sameness despite difference.

"Establishing within American psychoanalysis the position of infancy as well as the importance of the mother was a new enterprise in the 1980s, and the arguments in The Bonds of Love (1988) reflected, in part, a decade of immersion in research on infancy (and motherhood). The discovery of the interpersonally active infant—more than a bundle of disorganized drives declared unsuitable for psychoanalytic understanding by orthodox analysts of the time—constituted a kind of revolution in psychoanalytic thought.