Abstract
Subjectivity is a term that is implicitly present in almost all aspects of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic areas of interest. It is a commonly neglected term. In the last decade we witnessed a growing interest for subjectivity. Psychology and psychopathology sciences use the terms subject and subjectivity which originated from philosophy. Decart made a turn over in understanding the subject by methodological suspicion of all knowledge that is obvious. Internal reality is highly subjective in spite of the existing outer reality. Because subjectivity is partially a non-verbal fact, it was commonly neglected by official science. The teachings of the French philosopher Henry Bergson could be useful in understanding the dual models of reality, perception, internal and external. Recognition of internal reality is possible only through meeting with other's internal reality. It is a basis of intersubjectivity which could be traced through the history of philosophy and psychoanalysis. Freud never used term subjective, but he understood symptoms as a highly individual fact that arouse in internal reality. Introducing the term 'intersubject' we complete the missing link in the spectrum of 'intersubjective terminology'. With the reintegration of the subjective perspective we could broaden our understanding of the complex phaenomena of psychic life and psychoapatology.
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