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In practice, a “containing function” is necessary to evolve from conflicts to psychic turmoil. While studying the birth of psychoanalysis and its Anglophone evolution, the author underlines how the notion of the containing function is contemporaneous with a shift of the conflict issue toward intersubjectivity. Freud establishes that conflict is at the heart of the intrapsychic by deconstructing/reconstructing hypnotic practices (Roussillon). According to Winnicott, conflict shifts to the borders of the psyche, to its relationship with the environment. According to Bion, conflict is in the relationships between subjects. A psychic binding work has to be conducted for and between subjects (R. Kaës), which affects the conception of the practitioner’s tools and clinical position.