“…As Stolorow specifically notes, his views of the unconscious have Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 21:04 13 June 2016 important resonance with the ideas of the relational unconscious detailed by Gerson (2004) and Zeddies (2000), and indeed, with Donnel Stern's work on "unformulated experience" (1997). These theorists, and others who have written on the topic (e.g., Aron, 1996;Bromberg, 1998;Davies, 1996;Hoffman, 1998;Mitchell, 1997Mitchell, , 1998Spezzano, 1996), speak to the dialectic and continuous relationship that exists in conscious and unconscious mental states that are constantly being shaped within specific intersubjective contexts (Zeddies, 2000). As Gerson (2004) writes, transformation into consciousness requires the proper environmental fit.…”