Diane Davis Lecture – “How do we listen to the Unconscious?: A Bi-logical Perspective.”

Presented by Mark Stoholski, Ph.D LCSW

It is all but obvious that listening lies at the heart of the practice of psychodynamic therapy, and yet this truism masks the particularity – and perhaps the peculiarity – of our practice. In dynamic work, one attempts to listen to the unconscious as it speaks, and this is a sort of listening that differs from the standard practice of “active” or “empathic” listening, or indeed any other. Freud had described this as “evenly-hovering attention”, describing the mode of listening, but one might yet ask what it is we are listening for, how it is that we apprehend the unconscious, and interpret it in such way that fosters growth.
This seminar will explore this question through the “bi-logical” framework proposed by the Chilean-Italian psychoanalyst Ignacio Matte-Blanco. Matte-Blanco’s model of psychodynamic work offers us a simplified – but by no means simplistic – approach to analytic listening that discards abstruse terminology in favor of principles drawn from logic and mathematics. According to Matte-Blanco, the unconscious is apprehensible insofar as the logic according to which it operates differs fundamentally from that which we customarily recognize, yet this uncanny logic is nevertheless present throughout our thinking. Matte-Blanco’s contribution stands to enrich any psychodynamic practice through better attuning our ears to the unconscious and moreover in expanding our area of intervention.

CE – 3 Core hours offered. Costs: $40 for GSCSW Members and $100 for non-members.

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