This article will attempt to approach the issue of silences and their role in abuse, especially incest. It suggests that we examine the way that these are present in the transference relationship as the locus of an enactment of trauma and as an attempt to subjectivate the unsayable. These considerations are supported by an account of the early months of a psychotherapeutic treatment with an older adolescent girl, whose silences didn’t fail to make noise.

Adolescence, 2025, 43, 2, 223-232.