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The ins and outs of listening as a psychoanalyst
- Source: Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, Volume 6, Issue 2, Oct 2015, p. 169 - 184
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- 01 Oct 2015
Abstract
Abstract
In this article I shall give a brief account of psychoanalytic listening. I shall then consider the ontology of such listening to a session and compare it to the ontology of attending to paintings and poems. Psychoanalysts are interested not merely in what is understood through listening but in the process of listening. I shall proceed to ask how possible it is to represent that process. Finally, I raise some questions about how the capacity to listen psychoanalytically might be taught or passed on.
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