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Samuel Beckett analysed by W.R. Bion in the 30s, was always open about his attachment to psychoanalysis. He was consistently interested in psychopathology and had read the works of Freud and those of his disciples. His writing often encounters the concepts of analysis, sometimes even foreseeing its theoretical advances. We find, therefore, in his works a coherent thinking on the concept of jouissance, on the impossible encounter between the sexes and on the untruths transported by words. Looking carefully at the vacuity of the subject, Beckett, far from simply repeating this idea, discovers new resources, poetic, epic and theatrical, bringing forth immemorial myths and a host of original figures of the ‘other’.