Janine Puget opens the interview by recalling one of her teachers, Enrique Pichon-Rivière, and her first approaches to the group, experiences that later led her to define the concepts of “configuration” and “situation” and to rethink transference and countertransference. For Puget it is fundamental to recognise the analyst’s reality as a subject in the relationship and not to reduce him to only what the patient thinks of him. Fundamental to the encounter is the ability to surprise oneself, to accept that the confrontation with the other always leads to something new, which at the same time forces one to come to terms with differences and shortcomings. We talk about the new modes of communication dictated by technology and the language used by young people, which force us to leave our traditional beliefs behind and use an original idiom to meet the other. Puget places great emphasis on the importance of conflict not as a solution, but as an energy that keeps us alive and dynamic, because life is conflict.