This paper addresses Thomas Ogden’s early analytic evolution , culminating with his most well-known paper, ‘The Analytic Third: Dealing with Intersubjective Clinical Facts.’ There are a group of three factors that led to his distinctive theory and practice of intersubjectivity: (1) As a Kleinian-leaning/Independent American analyst, he melded together the clinical work of Klein, Kleinians, along with that of Winnicott; (2) Interesting himself more in how varying clinical approaches and experiences aligned vis-à-vis exercises in theory comparison, he evolved a hybrid Klein/Winnicott model through a methodological procedure he termed ‘the dialectical structure of experience’; (3) He arrived at a model of intersubjectivity that drew upon the interactive elements of projective identification and internal object relations—between analyst and patient; mother and infant, all couched in three modes of experiential ‘positions’—the autistic/contiguous, paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions. These three modes of experience—between analyst and patient—could either align or misalign in a superordinate entity, the intersubjective third—leading to either generative work or therapeutic impasse. In evolving his model and clinical technique, Odgen shed new light on a more expansive use of the analyst’s reverie in arriving at a innovative intersubjective understanding of countertransference in psychoanalytic technique.