I take up Matt Aibel’s dilemma of how to explore a patient’s inner world and the intersubjective experience of the treatment when the patient is not willing to engage in this or take anything from the analyst. I suggest that Matt serves his patient well by allowing himself to be drawn into the patient’s world on the patient’s terms. I focus on the emergence of a dead aliveness that Matt comes to fruitfully live with the patient. I suggest a process of enacted mutual regression and propose that a process of the flow of enacted engagement functions as an interpersonal version of free association that involves both patient and analyst in the field of treatment. I address the false binary of an active vs. holding/containing position for the analyst, and suggest that the latter can involve a very active engagement with the patient.