Trauma is neither a one-time only event nor something that can be completely divorced from the ongoing flow of living. Tronick’s developmental perspective integrates trauma into the entire spectrum of engaging where the momentum of rupture and repair and the unending processes of meaning-making link the seemingly irreconcilable trauma of a slap with the childhood game of peek-a-boo. Psychoanalysis also understands trauma as repetitive and further, encounters it in the unique setup of the analytic session. From this perspective, trauma is neither simply a process that is objectively observed nor something reduced to an exchange between first-person subjects. The essence of the unconscious process of trauma in psychoanalysis is found in how the tear in the fabric of being is encountered as an intersubjective phenomenon, where change occurs through creative and reparative play that engenders more flexible and novel modes of relating emerging from an embodied and mooded ground of experience that is fundamentally shared.