This story could easily be recruited to use Freud’s influential presence to demonstrate his dismissal of his own technical rules. I, on the other hand, examine it with a more modern lens to suggest that his activity actually falls within a postclassical way of thinking about neutrality. This version is one that emphasizes the importance of the analyst’s capacity to be embedded and to extricate himself from a patient’s procedural system, thus perturbing it to support change.