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Ever since Anna O christened psychoanalytic therapy a “talking cure”, there has nonetheless been a strong interest within psychoanalysis in gaining more knowledge of that which borders on the limits of language. When investigating experiences which presumably take place prior to the acquisition of language, models evolved within developmental psychology have become legion. In this series, we have asked three philosophers, who all have a particular interest in aesthetics, to write about issues situated on the outskirts of language. To be more precise, themes such as remembrance, music and imagery will be addressed, and what surfaces in the course of these works is a wider understanding of what we may call a non-conceptual level of language. To learn about deeper strata of language is no doubt of interest to the clinician. Thus, the contribution of the philosopher will be followed by brief reactions and comments from psychoanalysts from each Scandinavian country. In engaging with the philosophers’ work, the reader will probably come across vocabulary which at first may strike her or him as strange. Subsequently, we recommend slow reading, which in fact is not so different from the attitude of the listening analyst. It might be advantageous for us practitioners to reflect upon what hopefully will prove to be a common concern, in a vocabulary with which we are not too familiar.