The analysis is a journey, a voyage. In his effort to understand the psychoanalytic journey, the analyst found useful the novel by H. Melville “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale”, extracts from which he discusses in the footnotes. This paper endeavours to show how the analyst, through the elaboration of his reverie and countertransference, as conveyed by the patient, came into contact with his own unresolved grief and was able to comprehend, in turn, the grief of his analysand stemming from the loss of the omnipotent internal object that he had been seeking in the outer world. This comprehension helped him to give up his omnipotence in terms of his own narcissistic injury and subsequently transfer experientially to the analysand the ability to contain and understand. The analysand could then use his analyst and his secrets; i.e. the truth of life and self, as revealed through the analysis of transference and the collapse of the imaginary mirror it entails and which prevents him from connecting with the other.