ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the current crisis of psychoanalysis at two different levels. In its first part, it addresses the historical evolution of our discipline, both “internal” and “external” (social). In its second part, it focuses on changes in contemporary analytic practice and the expansion of the clinical field beyond classic neurosis. It takes a progressive position in the debate on the relations between “psychoanalysis and/or psychotherapy”. The more original section conceptualizes the metapsychological foundations of the analytic frame and method, in order to ground and clarify their possible variations, notably that of face-to-face work. It also introduces the new, key concept of “the analyst's internal frame”.
