Analytic Listening and the Five Senses

Chodorow, Nancy J.

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“…Moreover, individuals differ in the sensory modes through which they experience and process words, carrying forward specific aspects of the original experiences that inhere in words; correspondingly, the type of sensory experience evoked by words may reflect one's characteristic way of taking in the world, perhaps starting with the early relational world. Just as poets experience specific perceptual relationships to the poem, as words on a printed page to be seen, as the sound of spoken words to be heard; many analysts have a primary sensory modality through which they experience the words they hear: visual, tactile, auditory, kinesthetic (Chodorow 2012). I mentioned that river to me is the Hudson River.…”

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Psychoanalysis as Poetry

Vivona¹

2013

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been fully elaborated. To further that elaboration, a poem by Billy Collins is presented to illustrate the sensorial and imagistic potentials of words, after which the interpersonal processes of language development are explored in an attempt to elucidate the original nature of words as imbued with personal meaning, embodied resonance, and emotion. This view of language and the verbal form allows a fuller understanding of the therapeutic processes of speech and conversation at the heart of psychoanalysis, including the relational potentials of speech between present individuals, which are beyond the reach of poetry. In one sense, the work of the analyst is to create language that mobilizes the experiential, memorial, and relational potentials of words, and in so doing to make a poet out of the patient so that she too can create such language.

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“…Analysts and patients alike vary in the extent to which they resonate with and make use of the elements within speech, and within the psychoanalytic situation generally (Chodorow 2012). One's characteristic resonances reveal the hopes with which speech is imbued.…”

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Psychoanalysis as Poetry

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2013

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“…As a sociologist, her direction might have moved toward macrolevel phenomena, but Chodorow sensed that to understand the individual fully it was necessary to explore the intrapsychic realm.The title of her current volume is itself an illustration of its integrative aims. The reference to sensory modalities alludes to Chodorow's contribution to a panel on "Analytic Listening and the Five Senses" at an American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) meeting in June 2011 (Chodorow, 2012). Chodorow remarks on the senses brought to clinical work and notes in particular her "good ear" for "rhythm, voice, and timbre" (p. 752).…”

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“…In an interview conducted while preparing the present volume, Chodorow (2018) addressed the question whether her new coinage, an amalgam of one- and two-person psychologies, is an oxymoron. Chodorow (2012) defines intersubjectivity as “a way of talking about how two subjects . .…”

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Review of The psychoanalytic ear and the sociological eye: Toward an American independent tradition.

Moscovitz

2021

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Nancy Chodorow has long been acknowledged for her integrative thinking, bringing together her background in anthropology and sociology with her later psychoanalytic training and practice. In her sixth and most recent volume, The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition, Chodorow (2020) has assembled a highly informative collection of papers extending her previous investigations. She rightly takes her place alongside the integrative thinkers (Erik Erikson, Hans Loewald) she most admires.In her influential The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, Chodorow (1978) described the intergenerational transmission of the mothering role as part of social structure, not biology. As a sociologist, her direction might have moved toward macrolevel phenomena, but Chodorow sensed that to understand the individual fully it was necessary to explore the intrapsychic realm.The title of her current volume is itself an illustration of its integrative aims. The reference to sensory modalities alludes to Chodorow's contribution to a panel on "Analytic Listening and the Five Senses" at an American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) meeting in June 2011 (Chodorow, 2012). Chodorow remarks on the senses brought to clinical work and notes in particular her "good ear" for "rhythm, voice, and timbre" (p. 752). If psychoanalysis requires an attuned ear, sociology may need an observant eye with a wide lens. Chodorow's title suggests her intent to combine acute listening to the individuality of the patient with the capacity for seeing the individual within a bigger picture.The Psychoanalytic Ear and Sociological Eye also refers to Chodorow's chapter (Chodorow, 2004b) in an edited volume dedicated to her sociology mentor, Neil Smesler, who encouraged her pursuit of analytic training. In her essay, an excerpt of which appears in the present volume (Chodorow, 2020, pp. 231-234), Chodorow comments on the reluctance of sociologists to consider the individual as an object of study and explores the dynamics that may lie behind this blind spot. She then shows how to delineate individual differences while studying cultural events. Her example

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Longhofer¹

2015

A-Z of Psychodynamic Practice

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Analytic Listening and the Five Senses

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Psychoanalysis as Poetry

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