I contend that the psychoanalyst’s respect for his or her patient’s constitutively relational affectivity facilitates development in the patient of a sense of personal distinctiveness—or individuality—that reflects the patient’s unique existential and emotional embeddedness in—versus independence from—relationships with others. I call this a sense of relationally embedded individuality. More specifically, the analyst’s validating respect for the patient’s grief, angst, and intersubjective-vulnerability—affects by which one experiences one's relational embeddedness—fosters the patient’s self-experiences of ownership and relationally enriched personal distinctiveness. A clinical case of a young lady named Esther is offered that illustrates life-contexts in which she comes to feel and own varieties of intersubjective-vulnerability, and thereby develops a sense of relationally-rich individuality. The case also illustrates her psychoanalysts’ attitudes of affect-respect that fostered such development.