Extending the Psychoanalytic Listening Paradigm Listening with all the Senses

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Biography

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.

‘In this book we find an ideal continuation of Bion's Italian Seminars, namely a book that tends to develop the capacity to feel and think with all our senses, allowing for the development of what will be conveyed in the narrative - something whose motto will be to extend the realm of thinkability to its furthest limits. It oscillates between Bion's A Memoire of the Future and Taming Wild Thoughts in a dreamlike dance between threads that are in the process of being woven, between the extensions of the senses and the ability to give word to embryonic states and to the narrative knots and their characters, where the narrative plot is coupled to the sensory.’

Antonino Ferro Past President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, Author of “In the Analyst's Consulting Room”, Sigourney Award Winner

‘It is an experiential immersion in the preverbal, in the atmospheres, temperatures, rhythms, and the bodily equivalents not recognised as such, but as they are experienced in a shared return […] The Authors’ writings introduce us into the experience of their inner laboratories, making us appreciate their atmospheres, rhythms, and styles, and the astuteness and elegance of their research. The illustrative, essential and illuminating clinical parts depict the various stories and situations with the trusty brushstrokes of the expert analyst, and provide the reader with numerous sensations of surprise at the depth of understanding they are able to instil.’

From the Foreward by Stefano Bolognini, Past President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, Past President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Chair of the IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis