Donna Orange's approach suggests a radical emotional embodying of the analytic relationship in which metaphor allows the unspeakable to become spoken through the articulation of the embodied experience of traumatic living memory. The art and craft of human relating or the mortising and tenoning of the human connection, are fertile ground for metaphor – the democratic linguistic form available to hand for all. The analysts' choices become more about the ethics of human relating, timing, tact, and the care of a particular patient than about technical rules. Fresh metaphors that evolve within the analytic work or come from the place where psychoanalysis meets other fields of thought have the potential to deepen our understanding and freshen our perspective. Metaphors that come to be commonplace in our theoretical worlds run the risk of becoming deadening metaphors that can constrict our creative responsiveness to each unique analytic moment.