For a number of years now, Thomas Ogden's publications have become a genre of their own. He has begun to write about writing, or, to put it the way he does, to conduct a close reading of various authors' writings and their utterances. These authors include not only psychoanalysts but also poets. His idea of a close reading can be thought in the context of a literary parsing of the author's text. By literary, I mean that Ogden seems to place himself outside the loop of the author's backdrop, i.e., outside the analytic loop if they are analysts, and positions himself as a combined literary critic trained in critical studies and a linguist closely following his subject's productions, one who extends them beyond what the subject may believe he has said or written. The closest approximation I can