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In this paper I explore how immigration impacts the experience of working as a psychoanalyst. I describe a kind of loss that can be experienced between an immigrant analyst or therapist, and certain patients. What is lost to the analyst, and what is lost on the patient? What is mourned, and what is not? I suggest that the loss has something to do with the inactivation, withdrawal, or extinction of certain self-state experiences. I use the term “analytic fourth” to refer to these relational self-states that fail to become consummated between patient and therapist.