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One of the most fascinating and perplexing expressions of unconscious-to-unconscious communication is enactment. Having been accepted as inevitable, the actual clinical management of enactment remains somewhat vague, as analysts continue the tradition of not often specifying exactly what they say and do in the clinical hour. The fact that enactment involves a mutual conflict, where both analyst and patient feel out of control, contributes to the difficulty in articulating a path forward once enactment has occurred. This article presents a case where 2 enactments threatened to end the treatment and required the analyst to assume a position of being both confrontive and vulnerable.