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This text is about the documentary “My Octopus Teacher” where the lead actor Craig Foster's fantasy behind the emotional bond he forms as a diver with the octopus and the conversion of this emotional bond are discussed together with Lacan's work on logical time. The authors discuss the diver's view of underwater life and the conversion of his life in this text while they're looking for the answer to the question “What does he find in the relationship when he gets involved with the octopus a wild creature that lives in the sea, and why can't he establish and feel a sense of belonging when he is on land?”. However, in the text, the diver's fantasy of “becoming one with nature” and his narcissistic exile are discussed with the “oceanic feeling” that Rolland defines in his letter to Freud and for which Freud gives a theoretical explanation. Then, the changes in the diver's subjective stance when he observes the underwater life for a long time are examined. These different moments in his journey that distanced him from everyone and dragged him under the sea to the one that makes him “ordinary” and “part of something” like everyone else are discussed together with the moments of seeing, understanding and concluding that Lacan reveals in his text “Logical time and the assertion of anticipated certainty”. In addition to this, the question “What is unique to the bond established with an animal, unlike the bond established between two people?” is examined while studying the bonds of Freud and Lacan with their dogs.