It is a fact that language permeates our lives. Instead of being its masters, we discover that we are its effect. Thus, Freud recognized the impact of speech on human beings, and therefore founded his approach on the cure through talking. If words have healing powers, from the perspective of psychoanalysis we ask ourselves, how? In psychoanalysis, we continue to observe that words have a negative impact, but it is also through their effects that the subject can access their desire.

In this book by Luis Izcovich, it is demonstrated how—since Freud—all psychoanalytic schools emphasize that psychoanalysis finds its greatest driving force in the act of speaking, in the commitment to language, especially from a Lacanian perspective. In other words, this book finds its orientation in what Lacan designates as an ethics that proclaims its intention to become silence in order to then establish itself as an ethics of speaking well.