Int J Psychoanal. 2019 Jun;100(3):447-462. doi: 10.1080/00207578.2019.1589384.
The International journal of psycho-analysis
Haydee Faimberg
PMID: 33945760 DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2019.1589384
In this article, the author reviews the basic theoretical assumptions that underpin Faimberg's method of "listening to listening." It is emphasized that these assumptions cannot be altered without radically altering the method itself. A new and complex definition of "basic assumptions" that the author proposes helps us to understand how the logic of the method can "capture" the logic of the unconscious. One of the aims of the method is to hold a clinical discussion in a group in the frame of an "as yet situation," a basic assumption of the author (originally designed for the clinical situation) that concerns psychic temporality. It concerns the situation that has not happened …
Keywords: Faimberg’s method; as yet situation; idolatry; listening to listening; misunderstanding; theoretical basic assumptions
