Inspired by the recent engagement with the work of Hans W. Loewald, by Brian Kloppenberg and Benjamin Fong, this article reviews some earlier dialogues with Loewald's psychoanalytic contributions. It does so by placing Loewald's legacy in a historical framework, on the scene of his analytic formation and his writing, and of reception and interpretation of his ideas. Following Loewald, author's central claim is that psychoanalytic theory is a practice of care, albeit an anxious practice which relies on, both ‘real’ and strategically constructed, genealogies. Loewald's openness to our uses—the transitional space occupied by his thought and the layered horizon of possibilities this thought enabled others to pursue—has produced a fluid community of ‘non-Loewaldians’. The ultimate task of this community is to get to know itself; to recommit to a future through its own psychoanalytic passions.