The role of the imagination of the psychoanalyst is discussed, underscored, and illustrated in this paper. There is no such thing as an impersonal judgment of external reality. The analyst attempting to perceive what comes from the patient, inevitably codes his or her perceptions with personal imaginative elements, which are very often productive in the process by which understanding is attained. The communication of aspects of the analyst's personal being is made possible by his or her attempts to remain anonymous. The author describes visual aspects of his own analytic work insofar as he has been able to perceive them.