ABSTRACT
The basic component of clinical psychoanalysis is the analytic dialogue between the analyst and the patient during the analysis session. In order to orientate distance dialogue in the proper direction, it must take place in the conditions marked by a specific analytic technique that provides inclusion and support. In the distance setting, the patient is deprived of the semantics that emanate from the ambience that an analyst's office provides, with its iconic couch and the analyst's university degree on the wall, which in some way determine the "places" and qualities of each of the roles. Whenever formulating a contract for distance analysis, one should articulate an appropriate and credible type of commitment which can be both assumed and fulfilled. Distance psychoanalysis must construct a suitable framework for its operative necessity. Each of the two participants in the analysis is immersed in a complex contextual situation which is different from that of the other.
