Inspired by an essay by Martin Buber (1950), and then by the work of Ernest Schachtel (1959) on the idea of "embeddedness" and emergence from it, this essay is an account of the role of "distance" or "separateness" in clinical psychoanalytic work. We tend to assume that the capacity to appreciate otherness is always already present. We often lose track of the necessity to "set the other at a distance" (Buber), the prerequisite for emergence from embeddedness in the other. The entire process-i.e., setting the other at a distance and then emerging from embeddedness in the other-must take place over and over again in any treatment, and in both directions: patients must disembed from analysts, but it is just as necessary for analysts to disembed from patients. It is the emergence from embeddedness that allows the analyst's appreciation of the patient's otherness. Embeddedness in the other is discussed as mutual enactment. This use of these phenomena in treatment is articulated in the theory of witnessing presented elsewhere in recent years (Stern 2009, 2012, 2022b, in press). A detailed clinical illustration is presented.

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距离与关系：从他者的嵌入中浮现出来。

受马丁·布伯（Martin Buber，1950）的一篇文章的启发，然后受到欧内斯特·沙赫特尔（Ernest Schachtel，1959）关于“嵌入”概念及其涌现的著作的启发，本文对“距离”或“分离”的作用进行了说明在临床精神分析工作中。我们倾向于假设欣赏他人的能力总是已经存在。我们经常忘记“与他人保持一定距离”（布伯）的必要性，这是摆脱嵌入他人的先决条件。整个过程——即，将他人置于一定距离，然后从嵌入他人中浮现出来——必须在任何治疗中一遍又一遍地进行，并且是双向的：患者必须脱离分析师，但这对于治疗患者来说也是必要的。分析师从患者身上脱离。正是嵌入性的出现才使得分析师能够欣赏患者的差异性。嵌入他人被讨论为相互制定。近年来在其他地方提出的见证理论中阐述了这些现象在治疗中的使用（Stern 2009, 2012, 2022b，出版中）。提供了详细的临床说明。