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Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires

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posted on 2022-11-05, 19:00 authored by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas

In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of social interaction and cultural production in the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world. Marsilli-Vargas develops the concept of genres of listening to demonstrate that hearers listen differently, depending on where, how, and to whom they are listening. In particular, she focuses on psychoanalytic listening as a specific genre. Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) have developed a “psychoanalytic ear” that emerges during conversational encounters in everyday interactions in which participants offer different interpretations of the hidden meaning the words carry. Marsilli-Vargas does not analyze these interpretations as impositions or interruptions but as productive exchanges. By outlining how psychoanalytic listening operates as a genre, Marsilli-Vargas opens up ways to imagine other modes of listening and forms of social interaction.

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Emory University as part of the TOME initiative

Andrew W Mellon Foundation

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2022

ISBN (Open Access)

9781478092698

ISBN (Print - Cloth)

9781478015918

ISBN (Print - Paper)

9781478018551

ISBN (Ebook For Sale)

9781478023159

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Duke University Press

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