ABSTRACT
The primacy conferred by the rule on here-and-now factuality inevitably implied that the transference would become the object of investigation produced in the session. But it also contained the idea that, as it was produced by the session, its interpretation required a renewed conception of the analytic situation. As it is commonly used, the term 'analytic situation' quite rightly combines the analytic action and the space-time in which it unfolds. The notion of the analytic situation is an attempt to get beyond by integrating it the dialectic 'transference neurosis-working alliance' in which the role played by the alliance appears to be too reasonable. This temporality, which is included in the very dynamics of the transference experience of illusion-disillusion which is so lacking in interminable analysis ensures the latent presence of a function creating thirdness that is actualised through interpretation.
