The present article is the result of an attempt to define the services provided at an institution, based on a proposal for psychoanalytic work. This situation was analyzed by the artificial resource of cutting and assembling, taking into account the institutional space and its history and purpose as a place for shelter. This institution focuses on the subject as distinct from the person, and the inhabitants play a central role there. The psychoanalyst comes in as a third element whose presence has allowed the construction of the space. In the meeting between the institution, with its participants, and the psychoanalyst, a process is set in where each subject can stand out from other persons through their relationships. This process leads to a discussion of the possibilities or impossibilities of being a person’s space. The institution’s history refers to the possibilities or impossibilities as the field of the person and to the possibilities and impossibilities as the field of the subject.
Psychoanalysis; institution; subject; transference