The analysis of an immigrant coming from the same politically complex and paradoxical country as the analyst offers an opportunity for deep personal reckoning, achieved in no small part through the inevitable collision of subjectivities and the many painful moments stirred by the past hurtling its way unbidden into the present. As we struggled together, previously sequestered parts of our respective selves were offered life anew. As the dialectic between doubt and certainty played out between and within each member of this analytic dyad, there was a dismantling of powerful prejudicial positions that became reintegrated with a deeper sense of fear and shame that had contributed to their original disavowal. Again we see how locating oneself within the other is essential to our work as contemporary analysts as we confront our countertransferential responses and inevitable blind spots.