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The authors’ contention is that it is possible to be frigid about words and about listening. There are people who no longer even hear themselves speak. Interpretation is “forbidden” to them. The poetry inherent in the free-floating listening tries to avoid the trap of words, which by sticking too closely to what they state, can no longer hear what they actually say. In the psychoanalytic experience, an expectation is shared between the speaker and the listener. Without the other’s listening, no word can find an echo. Dreams (too long confined to nighttime sleep) domesticate the spoken word (which has remained deaf to its own sound) and teach the speaker to hear themselves in other ways. This paper aims to show how the analytical situation allows for a renewal of both the spoken word and the way of listening by deciphering the musical quality of the sexual dimension of the speaker’s words.