The Refusal of the Language of the Other Maria Cristina Aguirre I propose that the difficulty certain subjects have to learn and speak the language of their adopted country is a symptom. My hypothesis is that the difficulty to learn the language of the Other is a refusal to submit to the discourse of the Master. It defies its knowledge, and it points to the hole in the Other. In this sense it obeys to the logic of the hysteric, who seeks a Master to castrate him. The state of the art of medicine is worthless without access to the language. But in the other hand, it indicates its link to jouissance . It aims at the supposed jouissance of the Other. The lacanian orientation disturbs the traditionally setting of practice, unmasking the jouissance at stake. We know that by emptying the words of their meaning, the analytic act inscribes itself as the limit of the flight-of-sense and by doing so it aims at the real. Some patients with multiple and diverse somatic symptoms are referred for mental health services for treatment of depression and/or anxiety symptoms. The somatic symptoms are meaningless and as such silent. The complains must be expressed first to access later the realm of jouissance . When this space is created we hear the stories of love and desire, of pain and suffering, that constitutes our contemporary practice. In the Lacanian orientation we analyze case by case but we can also put these cases side by