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Psychoanalysis is a practice of speech between at least two people (which does not mean two subjects as two people can embody more than two subjectivities). Cut is the driving force of this speech practice. If we ask, what psychoanalysis has contributed to speech as an intersubjective process, one possible answer would be, that it has specifically drawn our attention to how words of one person can cut back and forth into the words of the other. Outside of the psychoanalytic context, when we speak, we are often oblivious of the fact that interruption is intrinsic to speech as a social activity. We are sometimes stopped by our interlocutor as we speak. Generally, when our listener cuts into our speech, it is time for a turnaround. In other words, the cut beckons the listener’s desire to turn into a speaker. If one cuts too much into our speech in a social conversation, we might even judge the person to be ‘rude.’ For the analyst though, cutting is strictly professional. More importantly, when the analyst cuts into the speech of the analysand, it is not necessary that they do so with a desire to speak, just in order to turn the table. In non-psychoanalytic conversations, cutting might trigger a shift in desire from listening to speaking. Differently put, when one cuts, it might be that he or she does not want to listen anymore and wants to take over the conversation as a speaker. In psychoanalysis on the other hand, cutting is not so much the power of taking over, as it is an effort to express what is heard through speech.