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Since Lacan, we have known that the logic of verbal hallucination does not stem from the sensory register, but from the field of language. Hence the process of the “broken chain” mentioned in his text “On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis,” which accounts for the phenomenon at stake, and whose causal mechanism is stipulated as “foreclosure.” But what, then, about the body? Drawing on a clinical vignette, we try to reply to this question by looking at the place of the body both in the hallucinatory process that lies at the origin of the phenomenon, and during its manifestation. This will be the occasion to broach the question of hallucinated noise, whose logic remains closely tied to that of the body.