The author explores how the sense of self develops in relation to the object. The self is conceived as a dialectical entity comprising subject and object. Awareness of psychic reality within the subject is understood to first reside as a realization in the object. This experience is internalized by the subject forming the sense of self. The interaction may represent a creative or an abortive intercourse. The analyst is required to relinquish degrees of their own subjectivity to be permeable to the mind of the patient. The author proposes a helical Grid, a revision of Bion’s Grid, to describe this process and develop analytic intuition.