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Keywords: Covid; dream thinking; the social; magical thinking; personal; online; transformational thinking; my-person EN Covid dream thinking the social magical thinking personal online transformational thinking my-person 1113 1126 14 01/18/21 20201201 NES 201201 When the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) declared the novel coronavirus's spread a pandemic, I wondered what might come next. In what follows, I will discuss thoughts that have shaped my ideas about the Magical in psychoanalysis, thoughts arising from my experience as an analyst practicing during the Covid pandemic. I will distinguish the Magical from Ogden's magical thinking and relate it to his thoughts on dream thinking and transformational thinking. More specifically, because the my-person of the analyst will also be present when at work with the patient's unconscious, what do the analyst's personal experiences evoke amid the process of being a psychoanalyst?. [Extracted from the article]