this article deals with « speaking in tongues », the so-called glossolalia. This practice is one of the main singularities of the Pentecostal movement which is very successful in the contemporaneous world. This language can be irrevocably enigmatic since it is constituted of words invented by prayers. We are going to try to make sense to glossolalia in that this disheveled and sibylline discourse can actually reveal the structure of the society in light of a philosophical and psychoanalytical anthropology. More exactly this language reflects upstream the South African social fragmentation, the indetermination of the democratic paradigm and uncertainties exacerbated by the neo-liberal economic model. The glossolalia can downstream be likened to a cathartic trance which aims at purifying the troubles that South African society engenders.