The author explores the issue of social class from an experience-near perspective, as it relates to her transition from a working class background to the forming of her analytic identity. Discussion of the relevance or impact of the analyst's social class on the endeavor of psychoanalysis has, for the most part, been non-existent: psychoanalysis unconsciously has tended to assume a kind of class neutrality or homogeneity among its own. Disavowal and dissociation from anxieties related to class, particularly those related to class shame and the desire to belong and want, can mean a premature foreclosing of the exploration of the deeper psychic and intersubjective meanings of social class as they affect the analytic candidate's forming of an analytic identity. The author challenges psychoanalysis to confront this omission.