In reflecting on Emily Seidel’s “Keeping the Channel Open: Psychic Mobility and Queer, Creative Possibility,” I narrow the focus from her expansive clinical, cultural, and institutional lens to the moment-to-moment encounter with psychic deadness in the analytic relationship. Seidel demonstrates that when working with constriction and despair, introducing futurity, “seriously noticing”, and joining imaginatively can be transformative, reopening channels and accelerating psychic mobility. I suggest that these elements derive their mutative force in their individual import and because of their fundamental relationality. In this context, futurity transforms because it is imagined together. Serious noticing activates “lifeness“ because it constitutes recognition between analyst and patient. Imagination enlivens because it is shared. I propose that deadness and vitality are qualities of the analytic field. Analytic transformation requires both members of the dyad to work through dissociations, emerging into vitalized experiences of going on being and becoming together.