TY - JOUR A1 - Benjamin, Jessica T1 - To Live Before Dying: Commentary on Paper by Anthony Bass T2 - Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 185-201. N2 - This paper is an effort to describe and express and the tension between the observing mind and the >wisdom mind,< which has its taproots in the deep and unformulated experience of connectedness. Nominally about the process of writing as a psychoanalyst, it is more like my personal >Credo< in relation to the work of psychoanalysis, the work of writing, and the work of living with contradictions – life. In it I try to bring together disparate reflections, to illustrate in the writing itself the process of making >many into one.< Because so much of this essay relates to themes in Mannie Ghent's work, including his work on surrender and his >Credo,< it seemed to be appropriate to offer it to readers of this issue dedicated to his memory. Y1 - 2005 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31002 ER -