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How should we situate the experience of the symptom in the perspective opened up by Freud and taken up by Lacan? First, by seeing it as the opening of a new field of experience, which ranges from the real of the symptom to its confrontation with the symptom in analysis. This represents a new field of radical empiricism supported by metapsychological conceptuality. There is no listening to the symptom without structural writing: the paradox and originality of the analytical field is to combine the reference to the concrete universal of the structure and the absolute singularity of the subject, which the notion of idiolect can identify. The subject, as a “speaking being,” is quite unique. Like “Humboldt’s parrot,” the subject is forced to speak his own language, the language of one person alone, while witnessing a structure, both invisible and active, a posture toward castration. Opposing the tendency to cloud the issue of structure in psychic disorganizations and psychopathological hybrids—a strong tendency of post-Freudian psychopathology—, this article situates the subject of the unconscious in this diagonal structure in the idiolect, at the core of the analytic experience.