Andiamo Dove Si Tocca (Plane/Talea #54)* & Campo Bishop Split Attention
<p>What is attention ? What is attentive listening ? And conversely, what is unfocused listening ? Fuzzy, lateral, peripheral ?</p> <p>What do psychoanalysts, sitting in their comfortable, disheveled chairs, surrounded by books and fetish objects, do when they lower their gaze and appear to sleep in front of the patient ? When they let their listening become unfocused, and sink into a wide backstage from which the opinions and projections that swirl on the surface seem only distant reflections and where an unexpected analogy, a coincidence or a spark of beauty allows itself to be caught on this side of reasoning ?</p> <p>What form of attention inhabits a compassionate listening and let us remember, it turned toward caring for the fate of the other, the patient who is now speaking ?…</p>
Authors: Alessandro Bosetti
Editors: Eric Laska
Part of: Lateral Addition