ABSTRACT

Analytic approaches to listening have favored something that is more akin to vision, consequently shaping the technique, aims and understandings of psychoanalysis in terms of the production of understandings and meanings. The aural aspects of listening have mostly been subsumed under this emphasis on the visual. Two models of analytic listening based in the visual are initially presented, listening-for, and listening-to. Illustrations show how listening in these approaches emphasize “seeing” (i.e. discovering or creating conscious understandings or meanings) pertaining to unconscious contents. A third mode of listening, listening-with, based in an aural approach, seeks neither understanding nor meaning thought to be hidden, in need of (co)construction, or needing to be made figurable. Listening-with does not seek to symbolize content either already there or understood to be present as unrepresented. Content is not what is listened for or to, understanding or meaning not the goal. Instead it is an abiding within a space not only of not-knowing but of not trying to know. Exploring the unlanguaged from this latter perspective will involve those portions of the analysand’s mental life that are never transformed analytically into symbolized content, as well as experiences involving the patient’s mental life that do not call for any such transformation or understanding. The first part of this paper will feature a theoretical discussion of these modes of listening and the second part will illustrate the conception of listening-with via three vignettes selected from the literature, each demonstrating different aspects of the position. These modes of listening are considered to not operate exclusively of each other, but are heuristically separated for the current investigation in order to highlight attention to listening to phenomena existing outside of symbolization or referentiality, phenomena that may never take a form.

摘要

倾听的分析方法偏向于更类似于视觉的东西，因此在理解和意义的产生方面塑造了精神分析的技术、目标和理解。听力的听觉方面大部分都包含在这种对视觉的强调之下。最初提出了两种基于视觉的分析听力模型，聆听和聆听。插图显示了在这些方法中聆听如何强调与无意识内容相关的“看到”（即发现或创造有意识的理解或意义）。第三种聆听模式，以听觉方法为基础，既不寻求理解，也不寻求被认为是隐藏的、需要（共同）构建或需要被塑造的意义。Listening-with 并不寻求符号化已经存在或被理解为未呈现的内容。内容不是被倾听或被倾听的东西，理解或意义不是目标。相反，它是一个不仅不知道而且不试图知道的空间中的安住。从后一种角度探索无语言将涉及分析者心理生活中从未被分析转化为象征性内容的那些部分，以及涉及患者心理生活的不需要任何此类转变或理解的体验。本文的第一部分将对这些聆听模式进行理论讨论，第二部分将通过从文献中选择的三个小插曲来说明聆听的概念，每个小插曲都展示了该位置的不同方面。