ABSTRACT
The experience of narrating the memory of a traumatic and transformative event becomes a meditation on how one person is launched into psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic training, and the psychoanalytic profession. Listening to imagery, paying attention to serendipity, honoring memory in all of its creative, emergent forms, and retaining the ideology from a first career as a criminal justice advocate are the themes that pulse through the writer’s analytic voice and identity in her early years of clinical practice and analytic writing.
