Psychoanalytic therapy requires that we render our feelings in words. Insofar as nominalization of feelings is required, we can apply a linguistic analysis to that process illuminating the range of effects that language has on these complex affective states. Syntactically, we notice the subject-object vectors of feelings. Semantically, we note the representational valence of affects as part of word definition. Pragmatically, the psychoanalytic situation provides a unique dialogic relationship not seen elsewhere. These parameters are elaborated for their significance to the process of psychoanalysis.