Suicide is considered a serious public health problem. Understood as a possible response to a level of extreme suffering, the act of those who attempt suicide or end up committing it is testimony to how this subject s life is affected by his surroundings, being a crucial issue for the psychoanalytic clinic, as well as for the area of public health. In the clinic, this issue can present itself in different ways, which points to the complexity of the theme. It is our aim to analyze how such psychological suffering presents itself in subjects who talk about the desire to die, in those who try to carry out suicide and in those who end up carrying out the actual act of death. This dissertation is based on the urgency of psychoanalysis to discuss this problem, which, many times, remains silent in our field, producing, even, some taboos. In this sense, we seek to cover what could be at stake in the psychic dynamics of patients who threaten their own lives, seeking to delimit particularities of this form of psychological suffering. There are many ways for the subject to deal with his own pain, which is something that includes his uniqueness. The suicide attempt is based on three main theoretical contributions: psychic pain, trauma and act. Psychic pain is a notion that runs through all of Freud s work, from the Project for a scientific psychology (1895), in which pain is examined as a phenomenon that imposes limits on the ability to manage and support energy; up to Beyond the pleasure principle (1920), in which traumatic experiences and the effects of the death drive stand out - a notion that is related to Ferenczi s contributions regarding trauma. Finally, we deal with the theme of the act, considered a challenge for the management of the psychoanalyst, since it includes the non-sense and is very present in the current clinic. The act is thought of as a form of non-representational language, an intensive language. We seek to expand the contribution of psychoanalysis to sensitivity and welcoming listening to the theme. The research consists of a theoretical study, based on the available bibliography on the issue, having psychoanalytic theory as its main theoretical axis.