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Much clinical case reporting is an enactment that alters, distorts, and reconstructs the analytic process and the analysand's experiences. The analysand's voice in clinical literature tends to disappear, leaving the analyst writer as the potential ventriloquist in an illusionary one-person psychic space. This paper presents a fragment of a woman's journey through analysis, hearing it in the patient's voice as it presents itself in an e-mail correspondence between the patient and the analyst. In this correspondence, the patient writes about her experience with her first analyst (to whom the correspondence is addressed) and with a second analyst who had found her to be unanalyzable (and with whom she is in analysis while writing). The first analyst, the patient, and the first analyst's colleague are exploring various actors' contributions to the analytic process.