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Noise and silence are seldom remarked upon as the necessary dynamic elements in psychoanalytic talk. Classics of linguistic and communication theory serve to demonstrate this dynamic with reference to primary, secondary, and tertiary transferences and countertransferences. The general problem of analytic work of all kinds is discussed with particular reference to Stephen Hawking's idea of singularity and astrophysical time. What is unusual for psychoanalysis among other analytic sciences is that it must, in session, deal with the tensions between interior and exterior noises for which the concept of imaginary time is important. Freud's concepts of traumatic neurosis and infantile morbid anxiety are considered in respect to the uncanny as the singularity in which noise and silence operate and are, from time to time, resolved in the unconscious culture of the dynamic relations between patients and analysts.