The narcissistic and oedipal aspects of the setting

SETTING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

Abstract

The subject of the setting in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy will never lose its relevance and conflictual nature. Despite of the fact that the main parameters of the setting in the psychoanalytic method were established more than a hundred years ago, questions about the setting are to be resolved by each psychoanalyst daily. The setting is what is most stable in the psychoanalysis, but at the same time it is most tempted. The setting can be changed and transformed, that includes the transformation of its narcissistic and oedipal aspects, that are reflected in the setting and on the setting – this article is devoted to this.