The author investigates questions such as: “Why do we choose psychoanalysis as our profession?”, “What motifs contribute to this choice?”, “Why is the relationship often passionate?” or: “which is in fact the object of our love?”. Expectation to recover from psychic suffering and obtainment of narcissistic gratifications are among those components. There are several options in which analysis could be misused, and we realize that analysis might have pathogenic potential - which entitles us to undergo personal analysis before starting the analytic practice. The author also discusses the pleasure and gratifications coming from the profession, and explores the role of honesty and self-analysis in the work of an analyst.