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The resurgence of the concept of construction in the psychoanalytic literature eighty years after Freud's text (1937) is related to its usefulness in enabling the analysis of non-neurotic psyches. Nowadays, the concept of construction has become more interesting with its connecting, integrating and meaning-making functions, both because there is an increase in the requests for help from the analysis of non-neurotic low-functioning psyches at the lower structural level, and because it enables the study of non-neurotic parts (psychic parts containing gaps, holes, disjunctions, foreign elements, cracks and splits) in the deepening analyses of neurotic analysands. In this context, current debates in the psychoanalytic literature on the concept of construction focus on the nature of the analytic process itself, on how to construct historicity and temporality in the treatment, on the conditions about frame and on the possibilities of representations and symbolisation that emerge as a result of the psychic work produced by the analytic environment. With its connective functions, construction is a unique clinical tool for making sense out of the chaos of the psychic space and for achieving integration.