This book aims to listen to the cry as a vibration of the extreme. Even when it is received as an expression of pain, suffering, joy or pure emotion, the cry is expressed through the sonority of nonsense, which overflows any authentically interlocutor use of language and breaks down the expression in its immediate use. The scream is an instance of rupture that exhibits the inappropriateness of the expression, it is the impulse of language to seek the traces of its other, of the body, without trying to obtain the fullness of a closed knowledge about it and, on the contrary, exhibiting its infinite difference.

"The thought of the scream" is thus a call to a deconstruction of language and the disarticulation of all pretense of domination of gestures. Through Artaud, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida, a framework without history is developed in this book that seeks to question the background of primitive material and sound expressiveness. However, questioning the cry does not mean raising the emergence of a supposed original state where existence would find its first trauma. On the contrary, it is a matter of showing the retroactive effect of language, its impulse to become home, not of 'being', as Heidegger proposed, but of the specters of the body that secretly inhabit it as an absent, disturbing and suspensive presence.