Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas, "Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires"
English | ISBN: 1478018550 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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.