Poets are invaluable allies, and their testimony must be highly valued, for they often know of a multitude of things between heaven and earth, the existence of which our academic wisdom cannot even dream of, wrote Freud. The analytical impressions that Laurie Laufer proposes here, based on various works, speak to us of life's trials: mourning, melancholy, death. These works open new paths in our relationship with the image and the body. They can elevate us, offering us paths to emancipation. If the analytic cure displaces the subject, discards certainties, and deconstructs identities and identifications, reading Mallarmé, Gary, Perec, Van Gogh, Chloé Delaume, and Simone de Beauvoir also allows us to borrow some paths along this journey. Works of art and books are here friends that whisper in the ear of psychoanalysis. Jean Genet understood very well that the future belongs to Freud.