This paper is a report of a phenomenological inquiry into some patients' experience of talking about themselves to the analyst in a foreign tongue. The data come from in-depth clinical interviews of 16 analysands who had been in analysis in different languages. We were interested to examine how bilingual (or multilingual) analysands felt about their analytic experience in different languages. More specifically, what fantasies (albeit conscious) did these analysands attach to their mother tongue or the second language as a possible medium of analysis? Was it language or was it the object captured emotionally by a particular language that evoked the bilingual analysands' desires or nostalgic fantasies? The paper consists of two parts. In the first part we introduce some theoretical consideration of language in psychoanalysis. In the second part we report the findings of our study, followed by interpretation and theoretical discussion.