These clinical vignettes illustrate the power of discourse and how patients and analysts alike get lost in it. This may sound like enactment or transference and countertransference. But we are saying that there is also a Third in the room—the politics of mental health and illness; of race, gender, and sex; of psychoanalysis. In “Li-an: Wounded by War,” Glenys Lobban tells of her work with Li-An, a Vietnamese immigrant, in which her countertransference is inflected by discourse or, more precisely, by a denial of it, and an enactment facilitates not only the analyst's recognition of her countertransference blindness but also the patient's capacity to resignify her experience.