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Despite the fact that the secret was not the subject of psychoanalytical research and therefore the term was not indexed, we come across it in day-to-day life, in many aspects and many relationships. It appears in the discourse of patients in psychotherapy clinics, but also in the patient-psychoanalyst and transference-countertransference relationships. We find it woven in many defence mechanisms and processes of symptom creation or expression of unconscious life. In clinical practice, “Secret of life, secret of death” reveals the secret in relationships (in professional relationships, familial ones, and in the therapeutic relationship). It explores the limit that makes the difference between that which structures, organizes and integrates (of life) and what deconstructs, is unhealthy, mortiferous (of death), between the secret of the analyst and the secret of the patient, between the unconscious silence and the conscious silence, between the secret that wants to be lost and the secret that is visible in psychic and psychosomatic symptoms and in acting out.
Joining in on the investigation meant to uncover what is the limit that makes the difference between the sanogenic secret and the mortiferous secret,