In this article, I examine Wilfred R. Bion’s and Serge Doubrovsky’s experiments with auto-fictional writing, drawing on psychoanalytic theory and method. I argue that in their autofictions, A Memoir of the Future (Bion, 1975-1979) and Fils (Doubrovsky, 1977) , both writers question the use of language and literary form as means of exploring the effects of emotional experience on thought formation(Bion) and the development of the self (Doubrovsky). The central question of this article is the following: How do these authors articulate and (re)produce their subjective engagement in the psychoanalytic process in writing, when this process is in constant flux? To explore this question, I focus on the genetics and aesthetics of A Memoir of the Future and Fils. In the first part of the article, I examine two major aspects of the authors’ life experience, war trauma and exile, and their impacts on their works. In the second part, I analyze how Bion and Doubrovsky embody different psychoanalytic epistemologies and how this shapes A Memoir of the Future’s and Fils’ aesthetics and poetics.