This article invites the reader to return to the psychoanalytic couch as more than a technical device for reducing visual contact or facilitating transference. It approaches the couch as a dreamlike ritual that organises a special mode of seeing, hearing, imagining, and not seeing, thereby reorganising psychic reality. The asymmetry created by the couch reproduces a fundamental psychic fact associated with narcissistic vulnerability: the impossibility of seeing oneself as an object except through another. The paper shows how the invisible analyst may be experienced as absent, invading, all-powerful, dead, or not yet constituted as an object at all. The couch becomes a place where archaic scenarios of devouring, holding, disappearance, and transformation may unfold. It is considered a material element of the analytic frame, a possible transitional object, and a factor in the formation of triangulated space, maintaining the tension between presence and absence. The clinical material illustrates the author's understanding of the analytic process as mental seeing without eyes, which paradoxically requires a “staring eye.”