In this response to Palmer, I focus on the potential of creative spaces. In resonance with Palmer’s evocative descriptions of his engagement with painting and its relation to clinical insight, I offer my parallel experience with dance. Immersive experiences in creative endeavors offer to a clinician a mode of intuitive entry into the analytic field of a given treatment. I discuss the need to facilitate, and to hold open, a space for creativity for our patients and for ourselves. Creating connects us - to our self, to others, to internal objects, to our mother-child origins and to the aesthetic pleasures of our first communications. The aesthetic capacity to keep this embodied vitality alive in the analytic relationship is the quality I conceptualize as analytic eroticism. Bringing a creative sensibility into our clinical work significantly informs how we inhabit the analytic field.