In the therapeutic process that unfolds between her patient and Jane Lewis we find references to a therapist’s attitude that points to a relational stance; in particular, the therapist finds inside herself the way to unblock the patient’s ‘frozen’ situation. Thanks to the therapist’s subjectivity, the intersubjective field is animated with images that can reveal something about the patient’s experience of terror and abandonment. I emphasize that the descriptive (scientific) words struggle to account for the complexity and richness of experience, while poetic words reveal their own specific access to knowing and we better understand our need for it. Once we begin to understand the centrality of the implicit aspects of psychoanalytic communication we are called to extend by much the concept of “words” in therapy.