I first learned about psychoanalysis in 1987, thanks to a three-volume book miraculously published in Tbilisi, The Unconscious. Nature. Functions. Research Methods". In 1988, in Tallinn, I was quite unexpectedly able to meet a student of Leon Shertok. Thanks to this, I entered into a personal correspondence with Shertok that lasted for two years, and for the first time I learned about Jacques Lacan. In Tallinn, I gained my first three years of experience in analysis.