Developing and extending the validity of the linguistic concept of predicate, the author introduces and defines the notion of “somatic predicate”, responsible for expressing in language the experience of the senses. Three examples both show the notion’s pertinence and specify its content. A critical reappraisal of A.J. Greimas’ analysis of the « naked breast » in Italo Calvino’s Palomar (in De l’imperfection) leads to defining the characteristics of the « perceiving body ». The analysis of an utterance of Jamel Debbouze’s mother in Télérama stresses the physical, bodily expression of a truth “repressed, prohibited, by language”, a true “id”, the expression of an immanent non-subject. Finally, the fundamental relation between the “political act” and the “speaking body” is shown through opinions expressed by Jean-Claude Milner which are here analysed from the perspective of a “somatic predicate”, three varieties of which have thus been described and defined by the end of the article.