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Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm: Listening with all the Senses guides readers through the nuances of non-verbal communication in the analytic setting.
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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
About the author
Tiziana Bastianini is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and Training and Supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and IPA. She has worked with young adults in a mental health service, and previously worked in psychiatric clinics. She lives and works in Rome, Italy.
Anna Ferruta is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and Training and Supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and IPA. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She specialises in serious diseases and primitive mental functioning, and is a consultant and supervisor in psychiatric institutions and research centres. She lives and works in Milan, Italy.
Benedetta Guerrini Degl'Innocenti is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Training and Supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and IPA. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Her areas of interest and research are psychoanalytic work with unrepresented mental states, transgenerational issues related to the body and the transmission of psychoanalysis. She lives and works in Florence, Italy.
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Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm: Listening with all the Senses guides readers through the nuances of non-verbal communication in the analytic setting.
