This paper explores the clinical possibilities in Jean Laplanche’s metapsychology and theory of psychoanalytic action. It examines Laplanche’s conceptualizations of the drive, the ego, binding and unbinding, and translation and detranslation, and considers how they may be of use in thinking about transformation in psychoanalytic treatment. In particular, the author considers his experiences with two patients, reflecting on how his affinity for Laplanche’s theory may have had an effect on the trajectory of those experiences. Concepts such as the tub, tangentializing the concerns of the ego, and unbinding as gateway to new configurations of self are elucidated in the context of the two treatments. The author resists notions of orthodoxy and purity as clinical dicta, and instead argues for the co-existence of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic praxis, positing that a pursuit of Laplanchean psychoanalytic experience does not negate other more “bound” approaches but rather, following Laplanche, tangentializes them.