Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm

"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"