Catherine Millet's autobiographical series reveals a fundamental tension between love and sexuality that psychoanalysis enables us to reflect on. Based on Jour de souffrance and La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M., the author explores how writing organizes a scene of excitation in which the body is caught in the snares of jouissance. Jealousy is a fantasy-based structure, both devastating and exciting, while love and the resumption of an analysis destabilize the economy of the drives. More than a self-narrative, this writing actualizes fantasy and sustains jouissance at the limits of what can be symbolized. These two works show that sex and love, although disjointed, are intertwined in a language whose function goes beyond meaning, revealing its function as a stimulus barrier.