Notes on Free-Associative Listening
“I Am Also a Stranger Here”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21374571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barnaby B Barratt (0000-0002-3432-6645, c/o The Heritage Stone House, 22 Virginia Ave., Parkmore (JHB), 2196, South Africa. or, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 251-275 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2836 • E-ISSN: 1943-3301 |
| Publisher | Guilford Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1521/prev.2021.108.3.251 |
| PMID | 34468223 |
| OpenAlex | W3198153028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
The unique conditions and characteristics of listening in psychoanalysis are introduced in relation to an effort to define how psychoanalysis proceeds “beyond psychotherapy.” Using an example from Freud's self-analysis, the author explores the tenet that every psychoanalytic session is to be treated like a dream. Freud's prescriptions for the method of listening psychoanalytically are critically discussed and the idea of “listening-to-listen” is introduced, as contrasted with listening in order to hear, listening-to-understand or in order to interpret. It is argued that free-associative listening is distinctive as a processive momentum that deconstructively interrogates the practitioner's own mechanisms of suppression and repression. This process fosters an awareness of that which is otherwise than representation, that which cannot be captured within the purview of reflective consciousness. In this sense, healing is not only transformative, but also transmutative, and the psychoanalyst is one for whom nothing is alien and everything is strange
Active listening · Consciousness · Dream · Epistemology · Informational listening · Nothing · Pedagogy · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Reflective listening · Representation (politics) · Transformative learning · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Beyond Psychotherapy
Being-Moved
Free-associating with the bodymind
A practitioner's notes on the free-associative method as existential praxis
Boundaries and intimacies
The Incorporeal
Illusions of a Future
On the mythematic reality of libidinality as a subtle energy system notes on vitalism, mechanism, and emergence in psychoanalytic thinking
Seven questions for Kleinian psychology
On Difference and the “Beyond Psychotherapy” of Psychoanalytic Method
Affirming ‘That’s not psycho‐analysis!’ On the value of the politically incorrect act of attempting to define the limits of our field
Oedipality and oedipal complexes reconsidered
Opening to the otherwise
The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929–1939. A Record of the Final Decade
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |