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With an excursion through Don Quixote, The Life of Lazaro de Tormes but also through La recherche du temps perdu and Les rêveries d’un promeneur solitaire, these reflections on psychoanalysis and literature are an invitation to revisit the concept of transfer, without which both psychoanalysis and literature are incomprehensible. In addition to the unconscious subject that unloads its fantasies into speech and writing, there is the other subject, the subject of transfer, above and beyond the anonymous reader, addressing an unnameable metaphysical instance. Its name moreover is unimportant (God, Time, Death...) since what matters is the frisson running through literary works, the uplift or trance that seems to require our attention for an undefined and endless deciphering. It is in these greatest moments of psychoanalysis and literature that we seem to find an immortal possibility of existence.