Relational psychoanalytic literature is filled with discussion regarding how the concept of intersubjectivity has enhanced the space between and within patients and analysts. As the relationship between the dyad expands and contracts, prior traumatic experiences become ripe for reenactment. What happens when the therapist is a trainee and her supervisor reenacts the abuse experienced by the patient onto her? When the enactment extends beyond the dyad and moves into the triad, how can the trainee use this shared experience to create agency for both herself and the patient? And how does the institutionalized authority of the training environment expand or collapse the transitional space required for trainees to create their own analyst identity? This paper explicates a case in which the trainee was able to use a rupture in the supervisory relationship to further enter the subjugated space of the patient, ultimately empowering both to develop a new way of relating to each other that moved them out of such constricted complimentary roles.