ABSTRACT
The status of the feminine voice continues to preoccupy psychoanalysis in multiple, diverse ways. This chapter presents a patient who sought out therapy due to a case of unrequited love. Her choice to travel a long distance for therapy is understood as her way to express the enormous distance gaping in her soul through other parameters, apart from words. In Kristeva’s terminology, her mode of expression is regarded as semiotic, in which the somatic, pre-verbal prevails. The chapter discusses feminist approaches in philosophy and psychoanalysis, to address the uniqueness of this patient’s voice. A poem penned by Ra’hel the poet serves to acknowledge the gap between two kinds of realms, which may also be termed masculine and feminine. However, these polarities go far beyond the differences between the sexes. The poem is not aimed at minimizing this distance. Rather, it attempts to acknowledge it in both content and form. As in poetry, by prising off the carapace of routine, the patient’s idiosyncratic style allowed for the emergence of a new experience.
