ABSTRACT
This chapter recounts one version of how I became a psychoanalyst. It draws on the analytic method of association to weave a narrative that moves back and forth through chronological time. It is anchored in the idea that psychoanalysis is less about the uncovering of historical truths and the development of insight, and more about the development of a creative relationship to unconscious forces within, forces that always promote a kind of undoing of the self and thereby allow its creative reconstitution. It emphasizes the moment of the present as an origin, and the medium of this particular communication, namely, writing.
