If psychoanalytic psychotherapy’s work is contingent on patients speaking, then what is one to do when the patient is unable to speak? Is silence the death of psychotherapy or rather a space that gives meaning to words spoken or unspoken? The author examines silence, as utilized by a queer adolescent who completed 12 sessions of psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a potential medium of dissociation. The paper seeks to explore silences as a paradoxical means of protection, connection, and disconnection. By viewing silences through these multiple and at times paradoxical functions the author recommends that paradox gives way to understanding queerness.