“The old avenue filled with sleepy dictionaries has opened onto a formidable tapestry where shadows and colors intersect, where memories vibrate and forgotten things are pushed into the grayscale. The anger that identifies with passion and the passion that is baptized as suffering, the howl of greed and the squint of envy, the heat of inspiration and the estrogen of sex, the milk of love, the weeping of sadness and the speed of joy, the brotherhood of hope and sperm: here is a forest of metaphors that take us back to the infancy of language, when the body fused with the word and emotions were close to the bones, the blood, the eyes, and the skin.”

Starting with root words such as anger, love, envy, greed, avarice, and others, the author explores Latin, Greek, and ancient Slavic and Germanic languages ​​to reconstruct a complex world of passion and thus recover meanings often repressed by the prevailing culture. This book, of interest to psychoanalysts, linguists, and writers, as well as to non-specialist readers, seeks to demonstrate that challenging this taboo can be a surprising opportunity for change and enrichment in our understanding of the world and ourselves.