ABSTRACT
From the moment that the only injunction given to the analysand, in the form of the fundamental rule, enjoins him to say everything that comes to his mind and to do nothing, psychoanalysis cannot neglect the study of language and speech, as it is refracted by the analytic situation between two partners. In fact, apart from certain arrangements reduced to their minimum, the lever of analysis rests on two props: silence and interpretation, or alternatively internal speech and enunciated speech.The analyst who undertakes to inform himself about linguistics is entering a maze where he will have to sift out that which seems to him to be fruitful from his point of view, from that which he can afford to ignore as it only concerns him very remotely, without however contesting the value it may have for others.
