A subject's difficulty to read - or even write - is a current-day symptom of our civilization. Several clinical examples question here the relationship between learning and unconscious knowledge for a subject. The origin of the will to learn, related to the drives, was taken up by Freud. This has also been discussed in relation to the loss of object a (especially in terms of the gaze and the voice). In the sphere of the real, the function of letters that are lost is also examined. The direction of the treatment and the importance of its temporality are thus approached in order to provide a reading of the unconscious as an interplay of words and letters.
Alexia; knowledge; body; drive; object a