ABSTRACT
The concept of setting has been and continues to be one of the fundamental crossroads in the dialogue between theory and technique in psychoanalysis, and even today stands as a locus of profound changes. The setting finds itself at a new major intersection with the discovery of the theory of transference, which defines more clearly the relationship between analyst and patient. Donald Winnicott and Jose Bleger are the main exponents of the modern theory of the setting. Winnicott conceives the setting as an analyst-environment system that changes to meet the needs of the patient, becoming in some cases the true therapeutic factor that ensures the continuity and stability of the bond. Bleger attributes to the invariant part of the setting the function of ally to the psychotic part of the personality, the most undifferentiated part which is responsible for protecting from separation and confirming symbiosis.
