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If we focused on qualitive features of psychic life, it is possible to notice two different qualities. In the first quality mode all the things are separated from each other; as subject and object does not merge together also being active or being passive in any situation is not confused or pain and pleasure experienced as two different qualities. In the second quality mode everything is merged together and experienced in oneness. In this quality mode all boundaries are blurred; subject and object lose their boundaries, pain and pleasure are merged together and being active or passive is not distinguishable from each other. These two qualities of experience can be found in philosophy beginning from Platon and Aristotle and, they might be seen as varying concepts in the work of some pioneering psychoanalysts such as Freud, Bion, Kohut and Winnicott. Schmuel Erlich named these two qualities of experience as “being modality” and “doing modality”. He presented those two concepts as two independent modalities of experience. In this conceptualization both modalities are present from the beginning of life, they do not transform from something else or from each other, both of them are always separately and simultaneously active in every situation which is related to psychic life. Erlich thought his concepts might be useful to enrich psychoanalytic understanding toward mechanism of traumatic experience and might contribute to the handling of trauma in the field. This paper is aiming to discuss “being” and “doing” modalities of Erlich and to elaborate possible contribution of these concepts to the field of trauma.