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The experience of the unconscious and its transmission are inseparable from the experience of writing. Freud was not indifferent to writing: it involved both conveying his discoveries about the unconscious and re-examining them at the same time; both feeling their powerful and disconcerting effects and developing them. Freud’s writing is the laboratory of the emerging Freudian science, the place where the analyst encounters and confronts the otherness of the unconscious, of the Other, as well as that of the imaginary other, the reader. In the cases of both “Dora” and the “Wolf Man,” the unconscious emerges, is elucidated, and is wrestled with in the very process of writing.