The two commentaries approach metaphor and the unspeakable traumatic horrors from somewhat different perspectives. Jacobs brings the fine-tuned embodied awareness of the relational gestalt world that she integrates with an intersubjective systems view of the analyst's involvement. Corpt, both artist and psychoanalyst, both deepens the originally provided epigraphs and concepts of metaphor and provides a clinical illustration that itself embodies working with trauma through metaphor.