ABSTRACT
This paper opens a discussion about communication by making a claim for the right not to communicate, and relates it to a personal realization. It is developed through the familiar territory of the preverbal forms of communication that are set up between mother and baby in any ordinary, good-enough nursing couple. It insists upon their fundamental importance for the more elaborate forms of communication that ensue in human contact with others and with the self, and it links this with what happens in any analysis.
