This engaging and creative work defies conventional genres. Emma Lieber invites her readers to join her on an exploratory adventure into an inner world composed of wordplay, dreams, literature, theory, love, and the quotidian dramas and rituals of lived life. This compelling and beautiful book is at once a love letter to the creative potential of psychoanalysis, a gift to her analyst, an encounter with her younger self, and a playful engagement with all the thinkers and writers who have shaped her world. Throughout, Lieber writes eloquently and courageously about how writing allows her to let a genuinely unknown future emerge.

Elissa Marder, Professor of French & Comparative Literature, Emory University, USA, and author of The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction (2012)

Deliberately conferring the narrator and the text the same status, Emma Lieber generates an ontologic chiasmus, like the one we experience in dreams, that creates a writing style that is no longer narrative but poetic. This style merges biographical and dreamlike residues on which the psychoanalytic process is based, exposing the emergence of a particular form of language when the author ventures into exploring the advent of a subject.

Derek Humphreys, Psychoanalyst and Lecturer in Clinical Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France