ABSTRACT
The Barangers affirm that the analytic situation should be defined as a field where the fantasy of the couple operates. It is a fantasy shared by analyst and analysand, which becomes mobile through a mutual process of projective identification. When analyst and patient become conscious of the fantasy they share, insight is born in the field. The set of variables that remained fixed constitutes what is called the setting, because they really are the framework within which the process is located. Some of the rules are explicitly formulated at the time the contract is made. The frequency and duration of the sessions are absolute rather than relative constants. The aim of the setting is to protect the patient from those revelations and also the analyst from his own errors, which disturb the process and consequently damage the patient and the analyst himself.
