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The authors show that the frame is a discreet form of linking, an immobile process in a state of potentiality. After comparing the configuration of the frame in the classical analytic setting and the configuration of the frame in group psychoanalytic psychodrama, they draw on three clinical vignettes taken from different institutional situations: a psychodrama for preadolescents in a child psychiatric consultation, a psychodrama with delinquent adolescents in a semi-free hostel, and a training psychodrama in conducting group psychoanalytic psychodrama. From these examples, they show how the copresence of several participants and multiple forms of figuration confer a specific figurability on this setting, which, more than is the case with the classical analytic setting, reveals the dynamic links between frame, setting, and figurability. This setting favors putting transference to work in linking. By way of conclusion, they stress the implications for conducting interpretation.