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In a psychoanalytic session, there are moments when it is felt that words are not enough to describe the feeling at that moment. These feeling which could be put in words as “feelings that are beyond words” mostly stem from the earliest days of our lives, which were experienced much earlier than the verbal language became the dominant element of our thinking processes. In this earlier stage of human life, primal phantasies which are described by Freud, plays a central role, through bodily sensations. This primitive way of communication is a constant force between both the patient and the analyst, while a verbal communication is still held through the session, as a way of concealing the pure emotions. The forces of destruction and annihilation, as well as the opposite forces which have a tendency towards fusion and unison, are always at work and dominate the session. The intensity of these early emotions go beyond the boundaries of verbal thought, and it is only possible for us to understand these feelings is to have a courage to go deep into our own archaic psychic world, and accept our patients as an entity, in this pre-historic stage of our lives.