Posing the question of the time of becoming an analyst, this article answers with a particular framing of time as a signature of analytic formation as well as of the unconscious itself. The writing works as a poetics constructed inside and beyond psychoanalysis through citations from Freud and Lacan as well as quotations from writers, artists, and poets. Après-coup, this article unfolds the retrospective and future perfect tense of becoming an analyst, the desire of the analyst, the ethics of psychoanalysis and its transmission.