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field) is understood to emerge from that interweaving of parts (embodied subjects) in turn constitutes the subject. In Latin America (de Leon de Bernardi 2008) especially, there is a link between Gestaltists’ views on perception and Merleau-Ponty’s emphasis on the function of observation, and perceptive phenomena as indicators of reality. Ultimately, Latin American analysts see here a principal influence on Heinrich Racker’s participant observer analytical stance, instrumental in the Barangers’ concept of the field. Among unique interdisciplinary roots in Europe, the notion of ‘encounter’ in idealistic philosophy of Hegel and phenomenology of Husserl, is viewed by some (Bohleber 2013, pp. 807-809)) as a precursor of a version of psychoanalytic intersubjectivity of a dialogical encounter , which transcends the transference-countertransference dynamics. This, in turn may have provided a philosophical background for Corrao’s psychoanalytic concept of the field generating a Big Bang encounter. II. B. PSYCHOANALYTIC ROOTS Globally, Merleau-Ponty’s work and the Gestaltists influenced Pichon Rivière, José Bleger, and the Willy and Madeleine Barangers in the River Plate region of South America, whose work shaped Italian thinkers Ferro and Civitarese, and North American Robert Langs. In Latin America, the Barangers’ classical concept of ‘Psychoanalytic Field’ underwent its own development in dialogue with other influential Latin American authors within the psychoanalytic culture rooted mostly in Freudian and classical British Object Relations tradition. In Europe, where the Barangers’ concept became gradually known only in 1980’s and 1990’s, their ‘Psychoanalytic Field’ conceptualization became dominant in all further field conceptualizations, yet admittedly, there are also other ‘homegrown’ roots, in the concept of ‘encounter’ of Francesco Corrao, and British Object Relations theorists, particularly Wilfred Bion. Specific to North America, where the Barangers’ concept was introduced by 1976 by Robert Langs, there are several other important points of entry, such as Leo Stone’s ‘psychoanalytic situation’, developments coming out of Harry Stack Sullivan’s Interpersonal theory, and those coming out of broadly based British Object Relations tradition. In all continents, earlier and later developments of the field theories and concepts were shaped by the wider socio-historical influences of the broader culture which surrounded it.
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