A clinical session is presented in which a patient made strange use of the phrase “I imagine you with …,” rather than reporting that he had seen the analyst with someone before entering the session. The various levels, meanings, ramifications, and confusions between perception and fantasy, and the structural as well as topographical aspects of this curious linguistic modification, are explored. The author's interpretation—“imagining me isn't the same as seeing me”—led to screen memories reenacted in the transference, and to dreams in which the patient used the analyst as an object in person to create a subjective object, leading to the decomposition of his identifications with his father. The analyst's own transference on theory also came into play as countertransference, and this aspect of the work is discussed as well.