The objective of this thesis was to enhance my understanding about the pedagogical relationship constructed between myself, as teacher, and a group of students taking a course in English as a foreign language (EFL) in the corporation where they work. In order to achieve this aim, I kept a diary during the eight months of the course. In addition to this diary, I also analyzed the exploratory potential generated by the pedagogical activities of the students in the classroom and the written messages sent by them to me. The perceived interweaving of the socio-historical and individual aspects, at a conscious and unconscious level, which are present in the utterances of the course participants and registered in the above-mentioned documents, led me to bring together three discourses - Exploratory Practice, Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Language of Mikhail Bakhtin - in order to understand more deeply the nature of the pedagogical relationship and of the quality of life in the classroom. The data analysis also enabled me to perceive the importance of paying attention to the individualaffective aspects present in the pedagogical environment. I address the central contribution of these aspects to the construction of the loving nature of the pedagogical relationship, which I identify as monological and/or dialogical, based on the relationships perceived by me in my pedagogic practice. The intended contribution of my thesis lies in approximating the knowledge and reflective posture of teachers oriented by Exploratory Practice to the knowledge of Freud- Lacan´s psychoanalysis about the human subject and to some key concepts of the Philosophy of Language. Thus, this thesis seeks to fill a gap perceived in the field of teaching English as a foreign language, on account of the scarcity of theories that derive from teacher-researchers´ professional practice.