Between words and music -- On the shores of self : Beckett's "Molloy" (1973) -- Whence the feelings from art : communication or concordance? -- The music of time in Faulkner's "Light in August" (1980) -- Music as temporal prosthesis -- In pursuit of slow time : modern music and a clinical vignette (1987) -- The birth of music in the context of loss : music and affect regulation -- The power of implicit motion : "It goes straight through" -- A psychoanalyst listens to a musician listening to himself composing.