A cracked door letting in bright light. A bone-white path towards the horizon. One pillow, carefully rumpled, propped against another on a chaise couch. When you search for this book and sift through the cover designs, you understand: analysis. Open the pages and it’s all there: everyday people living out dramatic conflicts, certain advice about life’s uncertainties. Grosz is today’s Yalom, the psychoanalytic explainer, and it’s become the book I recommend to students interested in knowing what analysis is about. To paraphrase his characterization of one of his patients, you feel alive in the mind of another when you read Grosz. He’s selling a fantasy– to be understand so well you live in the mind of another– and so well.