On "free speech" in the analytical space. The Greek notions of "free speech" (parrhêsia) and "free speaker" (parrhesiastes), brought to light by Michel Foucault in his study on the care and practices of the self in the Antiquity, are used to problematize the way on how the practice of listening and speaking can be materialized in the psychoanalytical space, as well as its effect. The practice of psychoanalysis will be a practice of freedom, depending on how the analyst uses it to act as "parrhesiastes" - his specific speech activity.
Free speech; parrhêsia; care of the self; analytical space