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The aim of this study is to develop how speech and symbolization is connected to the concept of a primary identification, and how it affects our work. My main interest is how speech works and functions, or not functions in the analytic setting. I will investigate the concept of primary identifikation mainly from Julia Kristeva’s elaborations of what Freud writes in The Ego and the Id. I will also connect this with Piera Aulagnier’s comparison between an identificatory and a delirious discourse. As a conclusion I would like to describe primary identification as an anchoring, binding, and giving life to the child as a speaking subject, made possible by the direct and immediate influence of the mothers speaking, loving, and desiring psyche connected to thirdness. In the more well-functioning neurotic patient, the talking cure makes it possible for speech to ‘sing’ and carry a libidinal cathexis directed to thirdness and change. On the other hand, in the borderline discourse, there is not enough symbolic space between what has been separated and disunited, speech lacks the shift of libido onto language. There are also a lack of object relational structures containing meaning and reasoning in speech and thinking.