ABSTRACT
Robert Langs offered a model of mental functioning and psychoanalytic technique that allowed for intrapsychic experience, including unconscious fantasy, within a bi-personal human context. Langs described psychoanalytic process as involving the intrapsychic experience of the participants, seeing this process as bi-personal and as taking place within a bi-personal field. Perhaps the most significant influence in the transition from the first wave of psychoanalytic field theory to the second wave was the work of Wilfred Bion. The central psychoanalytic clinical processes in this model are projective and introjective identification. Antonino Ferro introduced a third and new model of psychoanalytic field theory. This field theory has recently been called post-Bionian field theory. The psychoanalytic fields of Ferro's model are dreamscapes in which the oneiric quality of the sessions is essential and omnipresent. Ferro places emphasis on the psychoanalytic field that emerges and is created in the sessions of an analytic process.
