My client, who underwent psychoanalytic therapy for two years, repeatedly mentioned Kaverin’s novel “Two Captains.” Gradually the understanding came that this was not accidental, that something in this book resonated with some of its internal contents. These could be fantasies, attitudes, images, situations, scenarios... Analyzing the novel, she realized her own fantasy, which triggered her unwanted behavior, giving rise to painful feelings. Underneath this fantasy was hidden a desire that was inadmissible and rejected. So her favorite novel from the age of twelve became the path to identifying the causes of her problem. Each of us gets acquainted with various literary works, films, and performances. Some of them become loved or rejected for us, bringing a lot of emotions. There are also those to which we return again and again. Some books become tabletop books, some we keep for many years, some we read through and take with us even on trips. There are works that accompany us only during a certain period of life, and then we forget about them and others appear. Our inner world and its contents respond and sometimes resonate with situations, characters, their feelings, sometimes with what we “see” between the lines in these works. Z. Freud loved fiction from a young age. His works mention a lot of writers, poets, philosophers and their works. He often turned to the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Hugo, Dante, Heine and many others. From Russian literature, I preferred Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Lermontov, Merezhkovsky. In the book by V.M. Leibin cites the fact that Freud considered Dmitry Merezhkovsky one of the most talented writers in Russia. In his trilogy “Christ and Antichrist”, where in one of the parts he talks about the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, Freud prompted a psychoanalytic study of the life of the great scientist. In 1910, Freud's work, Leonardo da Vinci's Memoirs of Early Childhood, was published. Freud had a multi-volume book by F.M. in his library. Dostoevsky. He mentioned his works more than once in his scientific works. And he considered the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” “the most grandiose novel ever written, and “The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” as one of the highest achievements of world literature, which cannot be overestimated.” Another interesting fact from Freud’s life, described in the textbook on psychoanalysis by V.M. Leibin. Freud coined the Oedipus complex. And while still a high school student, during an exam he received a translation from Greek of a passage from Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King.” Many years later, when he studied with Charcot in Paris, he watched the theater production of this tragedy, which was famous at that time. “Twelve years later, outlining the results of self-analysis in a letter to Fliess, Freud mentioned Oedipus the King, and in The Interpretation of Dreams he gave a detailed interpretation of the tragedy of Sophocles. Later, his reflections on Oedipus the King developed into the concept of the Oedipus complex, which became the core of the psychoanalytic understanding of neuroses, human development and culture.” In psychotherapy, our clients often turn to various works, poems, films and even jokes. Often this happens when it is impossible to talk about one’s own, which is affective or not permissible by internal censorship. Associatively, these voids can then be filled with “strangers”: memories of books, literary characters, cartoons... And this is material for analysis and research. Our inner world reacts to the creativity of others, responds emotionally and resonates. It’s not for nothing that we like something, remember it, become loved, and sometimes accompany us through life like a faithful companion. Perhaps in these creations there is something that is hidden within us. By understanding and analyzing them, we can know ourselves better.