Genres of listening : an ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires / Xochiquetzal Marsilli-Vargas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsilli-Vargas, Xochiquetzal, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Listening--Psychological aspects.

Listening.

Listening--Social aspects.

Psychoanalysis--Social aspects--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--Methodology.

Interpersonal communication and culture--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Interpersonal communication and culture.

Psychoanalysis--Social aspects.

Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Physical Description:

xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Genres of Listening explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Xochiquetzal Marsilli-Vargas shows how psychoanalytic listening (which is grounded in the fundamental formula, "When you say X, I hear Y") has become a therapeutic technology that has crossed from the clinical setting to become a central element of social interaction and cultural production in Buenos Aires, the city with the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world. Marsilli-Vargas' fieldwork shows that "the lay listener in Buenos Aires who translates the words of others into new interpretations is helping the person to listen to herself." Ultimately, Genres of Listening suggests that there could be other "genres" of listening, such as ethical listening, which have been vastly underexplored"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Genres of listening

The music in the words

"What you really mean is..." : listening to 'that that is not said'

The psychoanalytic field in Buenos Aires

The mass mediation of psychoanalytic

Conclusion: Final resonances.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Marsilli-Vargas, Xochiquetzal, 1977- Genres of listening.

ISBN:

9781478015918

1478015918

9781478018551

1478018550

OCLC:

1274198199