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Amidst a mounting impasse, a patient’s startling slip of the tongue opens this analyst to a crucial awareness of her affective experience so that she can begin to reenter her patient’s. The analyst’s openness to her own vulnerability serves to free both participants from collapse into a doer–done-to complementarity. The enactive communication expands the depth of their connection and dis-connection in the moment. Just as a poem says metaphorically what cannot be said in ordinary prose, the slip jolts both participants into more imaginative intersubjective ground that transcends a sense of time and potentiates clinical momentum.