The author describes his work with a father whose son has recently died of cancer. The patient's despair, along with the analyst's history of loss, contributes to a series of enactments that reveal the patient's and analyst's mutual vulnerability and dependency. Unconscious awareness of these similarities between them appears to stimulate a narcissistic transference and therapeutic symbiosis. Following these enactments the patient and analyst appear to dream the same dream of “waking up dead,” which heralds a turning point in the father's recovery. This dream, and the patient's subsequent short story based upon the dream, may provide evidence of Ogden's intersubjective analytic third.