A synthesis of anthropological and psychoanalytic findings compels a view of culture as a mental structure with its related dynamic functions. Using Bion’s theory of container-contained, I suggest the container is an aggregate of smaller containing vessels. Culture lives in the mind as a containing vessel tasked with regulating the experience of belonging. Conceptualized as an integral part of the human emotional containment system, culture is ingredient to emotional regulation. In the analysis of all patients, but particularly bi-cultural immigrants, direct interpretation of the mechanisms of culture within the patient may be necessary to establishing a working analytic relationship and process. I use Freud’s 1926 address to the Vienna B’Nai B’Rith to illustrate how the mechanisms of culture within him were ingredient to his on-going emotional regulation. Finally, I present a case of my own. I show how interpretations of the mechanisms of culture within this bi-cultural and narcissistic patient lead to significant analytic movement. I suggest that the direct analysis of cultural patterns within certain patients maybe necessary before more “traditional” analytic work can take root.