ABSTRACT
In the movie Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner plays a man estranged since adolescence from his father, an avid baseball fan. One day Costner hears a voice say, "If you build it he will come," which compels him to carve out a baseball playing field in the midst of a corn pasture in rural Iowa. This chapter explores and expands upon Jose Bleger's classic paper, "Psycho-Analysis of the Psycho-Analytic Frame," recently retranslated from Spanish. Jose Bleger further develops the model of the setting and speaks of an "ideally normal setting" that, when maintained, is almost invisible; not consciously perceived but always there, providing the boundary in which psychic growth evolves. Bleger asserts that the patient and analyst come to analysis with their own internal settings: each bring with them their own fears and anguish as well as environmental requirements to keep such anxieties at bay.
