This dissertation is an unfolding and deepening of the investigation on the voice as an object of drive, theme of my book The Voice in Psychoanalysis: A Breath of Life. The present paper proposes that psychoanalysis, literature and the tragic art are instruments of interpretation of the human condition, and tries to infer that the concepts of voice, tragedy, polyphony, carnivalisation, and transfiguration can be articulated, especially from the writings of Freud, Nietzsche, and Bákhtin. The outcome represents a reflection on desire and the literary creation of modern times from the art of dialogism of several authors. As a literary polyphonic production, Love, Intransitive Verb, by Mario de Andrade, was the instrument of reading of the contradictory inscriptions of desire in modern subjectivity.