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The author draws a distinction between “writing about psychoanalysis,” understood as writing that seeks to explain and to transmit; and “writing psychoanalysis,” understood as writing that sets out to make something felt. This distinction certainly does not mean that these two forms of writing cannot be combined. “Writing is listening,” both for the analyst and sometimes for the writer or the analysand himself. Following the example of the dream, which is disguised and distorted as soon as it is articulated in the session, the successive modifications that occur between what the analysand says and what the analyst writes about it paradoxically lead to the demonstration of a truth. These various modalities of writing can lead in their turn to a better listening to the unconscious.