This “imaginary” conversation focuses on certain recurrent questions about the nature of the analyst's responsiveness to the patient's selfobject transference. Specifically, it focuses here on what mirroring is and how this is actually done in the psychoanalytic process. This leads me to recount what I learned in supervision with Heinz Kohut many years before and appreciatively attributed to his “supervisory pedagogy.” Kohut's statement “let the patient teach you how to analyze him” left a lasting impact on my development as a psychoanalyst, supervisor and teacher. He avoided direct suggestions as to how I should respond but drew me out to report to him about all aspects of my verbal and non-verbal interactions (as far as those became available to me on reflection in the supervisory sessions) which then led me interventions that emerged from such experiences. His pedagogy was to let me discover what I need to understand and how that had to be conveyed to the patient.