The article intends to study a central subject of the clinical psychoanalysis and of any other psychotherapy: the secret. For so much, the secret is studied in four stages evoking some of its dimensions: The history of the word inside our language; The subject of the birth of the thought and of the psychosis; The dramaturgies of the secret according to some writers; The paradox of the famous psychoanalytical rule and its consequences: the work of the secret.
secret; psychoanalysis; language