Freud introduced the cliché as a model to understand transference: a timeless repetition of unfulfilled wishes and scenarios that are enacted unconsciously to attempt a different resolution of a conflict. Based on observations from a clinical case, the author argues that analytic space shares qualities of timelessness, and thus, can be understood as a projective canvas onto which transference can crystalize. The author reviews the expressions of transference and countertransference experienced with a patient over the course of a year, highlighting the role of fantasy, enactments, and displacement in the dyad resulting in the author understanding transference as not that of a cliché, but as a fractal filled with repetitions, role reversals, and identifications.