This commentary engages Lisa Director’s “Dark Side of the Frame,” arguing that patient and analyst co-create a frame structured in part by what is dissociatively enacted in the field. Extending Director’s argument that patients’ avoidance of an in-person frame defends against the very anxieties that need to emerge, and that analysts can share these resistances, I explore how choices about frequency often function similarly to regulate both patient’s and analyst’s anxieties about immersion in an uncertain, unstable field. Elaborating the temporal dimension of transitionality, I take up how the temporal-spatial qualities of the frame become implicated in deficits and distortions in transitional space. I argue that coming alive in both time and space is an emergent process necessarily rooted in an ongoing, embodied setting.