I recommend that readers of this unusual collection of psychoanalytic papers start with chapter 12, where the unifying theme of the book appears in its clearest statement: “In my focus on the need to be comfortable with mystery, with poetry, with unknowing, I have attempted to highlight the different dimensions that psychoanalysts must bring to clinical work, if they are going to know who and where they are. Throughout the text I have alluded to the works of Meister Eckhart to suggest a broader reading of what it means to be human. None of this stands in opposition to analysts understanding the genetic determinants of a person's present situation, nor does it exclude a sensible analysis of defenses or transference manifestations” (p. 125).