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Who speaks? The question may seem trivial but it is clinically and subjectively crucial, even decisive. What fate is in store for the invocatory drive when the analysand engages in free association, when his or her voice comes back to him or her in an echo and when the analyst’s scansion regularly marks out the flow of his or her speech? And what about the analyst? If speaking and hearing divide the invocatory drive into two sides of a Mobius strip, each of these actions necessarily produces a certain (un)satisfaction of the subject, including for the analyst. A stirring (un)satisfaction of the drive through listening can sometimes weigh on his or her receptiveness to the analysand’s speech. In addition to these questions I will also look at the singularity of the relationship to the Other in the context of the invocatory drive and the echo stage. Finally, following certain directions given by Lacan on the subject of the optical schema I will attempt to outline an acoustic schema of echoing in treatment.