Full Description
Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm: Listening with all the Senses guides readers through the nuances of non-verbal communication in the analytic setting.
Presenting a dialogue between three eminent psychoanalysts, this book is made up of numerous case studies and commentaries on patients presenting difficulties with symbolisation, including borderline and primitive mental states. Each analyst presents a different aspect of psychoanalytic listening - body, action, and speech - from a different perspective, before the three come together to analyse these situations. The authors highlight the importance of listening as a device for the analyst, showing how it is used not only to make the repressed emerge, to repair what is traumatic and to activate the continuity of the self, but also as a contribution to constructing the subject throughout the sequence of interactions with the other-than-self. The authors propose an extension of the concept of the unconscious and of the tools used by the analyst in the consulting room: the unconscious states not yet verbalised of the first experiences of psychic life are reached through listening to communications that use other sensory communication channels outside of the verbal.
Bookended by a preface from Stefano Bolognini and an afterword from Francesco Barale, this accessible yet thorough volume is a vital tool for any psychoanalyst or psychotherapist.
Contents
Stefano Bolognini PREFACE Tiziana Bastianini 1. "PSYCHIC INTENSITIES": LISTENING TO HETEROGENEOUS FORMS OF EMERGENCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS "Listening with all the senses" (Tiziana Bastianini) "Listening with all the senses": metapsychologically widening; the paradigm of psychoanalytic listening; Catching the currents of the unconscious Brief reflections on the topic of symbolisation at the origin of the non-represented Listening to the negative: the analytic couple's implications for the psychic economy Listening to forms of unconscious intersubjective construction Semiotic gestures: "The murmur of things" A fundamental question: "Investigating the caesura" Listening to the excess: "That nothing, that too much." A different reflection on the dimensions of the traumatic The body knows: brief clinical reflections "Dissociated" places of the mind: flight when there is nowhere to flee to Listening to "the blue note": reflections on the Covid period 2. Embodied unconsciouses: in the beginning was action (Benedetta Guerrini Degl'Innocenti) Daniel and the edge of chaos The Day After: looking oneself in the face so as not to lose oneself Giving form to the object Analytic device and symbolic transformation: giving form to the formless Giving psychic form to the beginnings of experience From action to representation In the beginning there was action The work of the psyche-soma: from intercorporeality to communication in speech Giulia: a powerful and irresistible drive to represent Concluding 3. Openings for listening to words (Anna Ferruta) Ouverture - A clearing in the forest of symbols Absolute listening 'not greedy' for meanings The sonic material of island-words The forms of presence of the object that listens Intensity of the word Condensation of the word Power of the 'magic' word The word as a way out of the subject's 'enigmatic reserve' Listening to silence Silence is someone who listens Zones of silence: suffering denied Philìa: a sibling bond An envelope of words: the psychic skin The skin as a psychic function that holds the self together The skin as a psychic function that communicates with the other-than-self Immersed in a bath of words AFTERWORD. On some aspects of contemporary psychoanalysis: beyond interpretation? (Francesco Barale) Transference Associativity and listening The Device and the setting Symbolisation and the object's "symbolising function" Factors of transformation (cure) Intrapsychic and interpsychic Problems and questions
