The present article aims to work on some psychoanalytical concepts proposed by Freud and Lacan. This is done through the interpretation of the symbolizations found in a tale of José Saramago. The text is divided in signification unities and the symbolical processes of these unities are identified with the theories of those psychoanalysts. The result is an interpretation of the tale as the symbol of the desire to become one with the mother.
Literature and psychoanalysis; Saramago; Subjectivity