Thanks for the exchanges. Here's another that somehow missed my crib sheet:

297/ [Becoming an analyst is] a long route through your own unconscious, and the courage that's required to experience anxiety and anguist as you face your own life failures—before you sit behind a couch and pretend to be an analyst with someone else's suffering.
What does that entail and how long does it take? ... In the end you authorize yourself as an analyst, but you do not do this alone.

[This last bit, "in the end you authorize yourself ... but you do not do this alone" is a beginning of a formula, because this is what we do with any skill. Some are born in their authority, some are mentored through it, some find it by resisting their training and mentors, and some are forever suspended not quite sure and feeling as a imposter. This is particularly difficult, I know, for any authority I claim through self-teaching.

[I have not read her other book, plan to, but not right away. I want to practice this type of listening to the stammers, silences, and the language of the body in space for the unsayable for a while.]

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