This paper is focused on the importance of reality and on the current experience in the constitution of subjectivity based on Hans W. Loewald's ideas, and on his original conception of reality. The relational character of drives, the idea of a new object for the psychoanalytical relationship, the invention of reality, the conception of sublimation, and the understanding of symbolism are among Loewald's most important ideas concerning the role of the environment in the constitution of subjectivity. His ideas are also important for a more specific understanding of the relationship between subjectivity and contemporary social reality.
Reality; alterity; constitution of the subject; psychoanalytical theory; psychoanalytical practice