In October 2014, at “Psychoanalysis on Ice,” an international psychoanalytic conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, 120 psychoanalysts traveled from 13 countries enticed to “Meet in the Middle,” the slogan from the local tourism bureau. The conference invited conversations across well-entrenched theoretical, historical, geographic, and linguistic divisions, evoking conversation and debate on widely held psychoanalytic concepts to foreground commonality and difference regarding “standard psychoanalytic technique.” We sought to erode the often over-exaggerated impression of difference between “schools” and theoretical orientations, an impression cultivated by those “schools” themselves. Having been told by many colleagues that “some of their best friends are Lacanians, Kleinians, Winnicottians, and Ego Psychologists,” we thought to bring these “friends” together and see what emerged. The resulting moments of delight, contention, boredom, amusement potentiated unexpected union. The conference drew