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This article discusses the specificity of a psychosocial clinical approach to discourse analysis. The status of discourse production and its analysis is differentiated between a research interview initiated by the researcher and a production based on a request and carried out within a framework that favors the subject’s own access to the gap between the manifest and the latent.The psychic work of language, in discourse, depends on an approach that enables the subject of discourse to free themselves—notably through openness to metaphorical thought—from speech that too quickly semanticizes what is said and experienced into a self-narrative. The specificity of the collection of discursive material then lies in what can be heard of the preconscious thoughts that condition the narrative in a situation activated and actualized by a transferential relationship and by the attention paid to this relationship.