<p>In this article the author looks at the course of an initial interview from the perspective of psychoanalytic field theory. Based on Bolognini’s distinction between interpersonal, intersubjective and interpsychic, he outlines three models that currently guide the psychoanalytic approach in the session: the model of interpersonality, the model of transference and countertransference and the model of the analytic field. He combines different working methods, which he describes as relationship work, transference work and field work. Using an initial interview, he shows how the analyst oscillates between these models and working methods. He argues that such oscillation takes place in the work of most analysts, even if they explicitly ascribe themselves to one of the models.</p>