Beckett calls into question certain pillars of literature by taking words to the threshold of their meaning and questioning its essence as well as its possibilities. In so doing he reveals another reality, different from words, but one that does not exist without words. This reality invites us to reflect on the rhythm and form of temporality and movement. For Freud, rhythm corresponds to the qualitative aspect of the pleasure principle. It can also be detected in the alternation between continuity and discontinuity as well as between binding and unbinding. In the principal character of Not I there are traces of a very distressing birth which the different modalities of rhythm seeks to make acceptable. The regular dialogue between the bee and the stripes nurtures the ephemeral outcome of the narrative through which the character finds the words and tears to irrigate his soul which has been dried up by the absence of love.