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This work assembles and re-elaborates some of my previous contributions: the paper “Una stagione a Vienna” presented in Trieste in December 1985, during the international congress “Trieste: la cultura psicoanalitica. Bilancio storico”, published in 1987 in the volume La cultura psicoanalitica, that is a collection of the acts of the congress, and almost at the same time in the International Review of Psycho-Analysis under the title “A Spell in Vienna: but was Freud a Freudian?”; and the presentation of “Il setting, variazioni sul tema”, in Bologna in the course of the multiple seminars in May 1987, to a particularly successful and productive group of colleagues.
For further studies on the question I would refer the reader to “The Setting” published recently (1986) on this Journal by F. Ferraro and C. Genovese, to the agile paper by G. Di Chiara (1971), to the theoretical and methodological contributions by G. Hautmann (1974, ) and to the original works by , S. Molinari Negrini (1984), C. Preve (1986) and A. Saraval (1988).
In this paper I shall limit myself to describing the framework within which I work and I shall note the definitions of those Authors to whom