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From: Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D.
Date: 7/3/98
In his unfriendly comments on my views, Miller ( 22 April, 1997) discussed what he termed "Stolorow's Myths." Citing no supportive evidence, he pronounced my system to be no more logical than what it seeks to replace. His pronouncement reflects a serious misreading of my work. Contrary to Miller's mischaracterization, my collaborators and I have never claimed that one can "truly know" another's experience. As we have repeatedly explained, such immaculate perception would require one to expunge one's own subjectivity from the intersubjective system, an impossible feat. Contrary to Miller's misunderstanding, decentering, a concept borrowed form Piaget, does not mean transcending one's own subjectivity. It means becoming reflectively aware of that subjectivity and of how it inadvertently shapes one's perceptions.
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