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This article proposes a psychoanalytical approach to the origin of the creative process in the work of Antonin Artaud, who firmly sets his creation in corporality, both in his own body and in that of the text. This “insurgent of the body” desperately tries to destroy/create its body and the body of language, and tries to expropriate itself from its own body to appropriate a self-generated body through writing. The role played by the body in creation, which is constructed by physical experiences, typical of psychosis, is particularly apparent in Artaud’s final texts, heralding the treatment of the body in modern art. Different representations of the body are revealed in Antonin Artaud’s final texts: the dead body, the new body, remade “through generation,” the persecuting body, the body that kills thought, bodies that hurl words. .. In Artaud’s poetry, the verbal matter becomes organic and it is necessary to question the way the writer has embodied the words and managed to transpose into the corporality of the text his clashing, physical experiences.