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Historically, the Analytic Field has been understood on the basis of analogies imported from the world of physics. In this paper I propose to understand the Analytic Field, as shown by Bionian Field Theory, from a complementary socio-ecological perspective. The Field, I hypothesize, can also be acknowledge as a commons, a land in which its resources are available to all the members that creates and gives shape to it. In other words, the Field becomes an expanse where all things are shared and co-constructed. Thereby, I consider that an analytical tool that helps to arrive at such an understanding of the Field can be found in the proposed concept of transformation into the commons, a paradigmatic shift that helps transcends the caesura found in the bionian concept of narcissism vs. social-ism. Therefore, transformation into the commons can be seen as an exercise, as shown by the clinical material presented in the paper, that modifies the understanding of the psychoanalytic encounter from an unipersonal psychoanalysis to a psychoanalysis based on intersubjective recognition which can only be found in the we-ness of analytic life.