In this reply to commentaries by Tony Bass and Steven Kuchuck’s discussions of “Finding Words: How the Process and Products of Psychoanalytic Writing Can Channel the Therapeutic Action of the Very Treatment It Sets Out to Describe,” Altstein proposes that Loewald’s reinvention of Freud’s Oedipus conflict to include the act of parricide is active in the relationship between candidates at psychoanalytic institutes and the teachers and writers they revere. Psychoanalytic writing is offered as a potential—and useful—vehicle for the destruction of, honoring of, and joining with one’s symbolic analytic parents.