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On psychoanalytic listening: language and unconscious communication
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
|January 1, 1993
Summary
Psychoanalytic listening deciphers unconscious meanings through psycholinguistics and semiotics. This model analyzes linguistic elements like narrativity and symbolic reference, distinguishing it from ordinary listening.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Semiotics
- Psychoanalysis
Background:
- Review of past and recent perspectives on psychoanalytic listening.
- Need for a synthetic model integrating psycholinguistics and semiotics.
Purpose of the Study:
- To present a synthetic model of psychoanalytic listening.
- To delineate the linguistic categories crucial for analytic listening.
- To differentiate psychoanalytic listening from ordinary listening.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of linguistic categories: narrativity, symbolic reference, form, and interactive conventions.
- Application of psycholinguistic and semiotic principles.
- Distinction between unconscious and denotative/connotative meanings.
Main Results:
- Psychoanalytic listening identifies unconscious meanings in specific linguistic and nonlinguistic communications.
- The model highlights the significance of narrativity, symbolic reference, form, and interactive conventions.
- Psychoanalytic listening transcends the surface-level meanings perceived by ordinary listening.
Conclusions:
- A synthetic model of psychoanalytic listening, grounded in psycholinguistics and semiotics, offers a framework for understanding unconscious communication.
- The model provides a method for analyzing the complex layers of meaning in psychoanalytic discourse.
- This approach enhances the precision and depth of psychoanalytic interpretation.