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Starting from the premise that psychoanalytic writing is a core feature of the profession of psychoanalysis, the author considers what and how analysts write about psychoanalysis as inseparable from the state of affairs of the field. What is psychoanalytic writing and what is its purpose? For whom do psychoanalysts write—and can or should this ambit be widened? Does the way we currently and traditionally present psychoanalytic thought and work clarify or obscure what psychoanalysts know and do? These and other questions critically probe differences between what psychoanalysis can do in the consultation room (therapeutic action) and how psychoanalysis can impact our broader world (psychoanalysis “in action”). Using the writer’s own experience as a psychoanalyst who works as an advisor and consultant to corporate leaders and organizations and who writes for a diverse business readership as a point of entry, an argument is made for psychoanalysts to use writing differently to more effectively communicate to the world what psychoanalysts do, what psychoanalysis is capable of, and to be more inventive in engaging in contemporary society.