Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.: Like the welcoming hug of a good friend, Sandra Buechler's reflections on Arnie Richard's thoughts on the role of ideology in psychoanalytic science and practice, are simultaneously authentic, complex, and pass undeniably beyond language-thought as truth and emotion often do. Spoken in the language of a deeply human clinician and narrator, Dr. Buechler urges the reader to do what experience, pain, and wonder have taught us leads on where the sidewalk ends: Embrace ideology as a flickering light in the darkness, a value-laden friend with all that comes with such relationships, and finally one idea among and as such subject to synergies and limits by its very nature. Rather than explain her to the reader, one finds her reflections are both convergently familiar, and like a good meal, a pleasurable experience and a take home from this moveable feast.