This paper considers the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis in the context of the natural history of feeling and its underwriting of symbolic functioning in the human species. Children in the human species learn to project their capacity to feel - the fundamental affective consciousness that motivates and mediates learning in all animal species - into shared sociocultural forms, most notably human language. Understanding how children's subjective lives develop within the interplay of biological (feeling) and cultural (language) dynamics is important for understanding how an analysand can change her life of feeling through the psychoanalytic process. New feelings arise in the ongoing examination of the analysand's experiences as both participants in the consulting room attune themselves to shifts in affective state and attempt to explicitly articulate the nature of these shifts. As the analysand's past is inscribed for her anew in each of many unique therapeutic presents, new feelings beget over time new alignments within the analysand's subjective life. Feeling is the infinitely creative potential of our minds - the platform from which we know the world and ourselves.