Danielle Knafo’s “The Sexual Illusionist” is examined from the perspective of working unobtrusively with unsymbolized and unrepresented states in the register of enactment. Knafo’s paper offers a unique rendition of an extremely challenging treatment involving great intimacy, love, violation and rampant and provocative sexual fantasies. In this commentary I suggest that the treatment exemplifies the challenge of working in the realm of psychic excess, too muchness and chronic developmental failure. I suggest that much of the highly sexualized material can be best understood as attempts by the patient, Cain, to create a transformational object such that he can manage his immersion in excess and come into being as a subject. I suggest that the therapeutic action takes place in the realm of unsymbolized enactment where love and limit can grow and take hold. I congratulate Knafo on a moving and honest description of an extremely challenging case.