Michel Schneider died in 2022. This article looks back at the main themes of his book, Lu et entendu, published in 2013 in the ‘Le fil rouge’ collection. While, for Schneider, literary writing and psychoanalysis are not part of the same process, he manages, by drawing on the works of several writers, to show how the two fields confront language and its tyranny, go back to the sources of identity while questioning what constitutes it, and delve into the mysteries of desire. Neither is free of perversion.