The intimate relationship between psychoanalysis and writing has been reviewed in this article. The different positioning of the writer of a psychoanalytical writing, i.e., the writer/analyst, compared to his/her positioning as a psychoanalyst has been further explored. The practice of writing for an analyst is different from the practice of analysis in regards to time, place and desire. A psychoanalyst in the process of writing is as if in a phantasm of timelessness. While the relationship between psychoanalysis and writing has been elaborated in this article, the views of the two prominent thinkers of this field, two psychoanalyst/writers, Andre Green and Pontalis, have also been mentioned.