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In attempting to capture something of the experience of being alive in words, the words themselves must be alive. Words, when they are living and breathing, are like musical chords [Thomas H. Ogden, 1997, p. 4].
I have become convinced that it is in the process of somatic-symbolic integration, the process through which emotional experience comes into language, that the sense of being is born [Robert D. Stolorow, 2006, p. 240].
The struggle is to find an authentic voice in which to speak to the analysand [Stephen A. Mitchell, 1988, p. 295].