The COVID-19 pandemic has been a narcissistic shock, revealing the dark side of the ego, and of the analytic setting. The transition to remote analysis has opened a laboratory that allows us to study not only the consequences of the new frame, but also the foundations of any analytic setting. With Bleger and Donnet, the issue of processes opens a perspective on the frame and how it acts on the work of symbolization. The study of the effects of remote analytic work on clinical phenomena ought to be combined with that of the internal symbolic frame of each patient.