Michel Schneider proved himself to be a remarkable bridge-builder between literature and psychoanalysis, maintaining the specificity of each, while keeping well away from an applied psychoanalytic approach. He proposed a method for exploring literary works in which identification with the author and love for the work, as much as the demands of the work of thought in interpretation, were an enrichment for the soul. The child, with his fantasies and pain, and the impasses in which he can be alienated by the ties with those who look after him, are at the heart of his thinking. But, as in Proust’s relationship with his mother, these ties are also an opportunity for literary creativity.