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This article, which is at the intersection of clinical phenomenology and psychoanalysis, clarifies the encounter with the schizophrenic patient, focusing on the impossible aspects of this encounter within the cure. Although impossible, this encounter takes place and, when this happens, it embodies the utmost authenticity. The function of the word is central, the language is most embodied, and words are no longer approximated. In this encounter, the language appears physically alive, and it has a vocation: to transform the germs of death contained in life into life itself. The therapist has the role of interpreter of the mysterious and transcendent authority from where the true word originates, which Heidegger, following Hölderlin, called “the Celestial ones.”