Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis: Cultural, Clinical, and Research Perspectives

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Editors’ introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I Cultural
	Part I Introduction to Part I
	Chapter 1 Silence in phenomenology: Dream or nightmare?
		Pregnant silence
		Threatening silences
		Trauma-frozen silences
		Silence in the phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas
		Silence unfrozen
		Silence as complicity
		In conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2 Encountering religious and spiritual silences
		The ineffable
		Folk rituals
		Egypt to Greece
		India
		Judaism
		Buddhism
		Christianity
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3 Forms and functions of silence and silencing: An approach from linguistics and conversation analysis with reference to psychotherapy
		Silence and silencing in communicative exchanges
		Silence in non-dialogical situations (NDS) and in dialogical situations (DS)
		Interpreting silence
		Interpreting silence in the psychotherapeutic interaction
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4 The many forms of silence in music
		Definitions of silence
		From effect to signifying symbol: the rest
		Music that falls silent
		Fermatas and reverberation: French “métamusique”
		The All-One of space and time in the work of Iannis Xenakis
		The fermata: dreaming spaces and sudden ecstasies in the work of Luigi Nono
		Silent music – the introduction of new forms of silence
		Abstract experience: Morton Feldman
		4’33” – The buzzing of ambient sounds
		4’33” – The pure experience
		The perennial question of existence
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5 Silence in an age of distraction
		Notes
		References
Part II Clinical
	Part II Introduction to Part II
	Chapter 6 Cultural function and psychological transformation of silence in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy
		Cross-cultural meanings of silence
		The cultural significance of silence in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
		Silence as a psychoanalytic phenomenon
		Susan—A case of silence in the sixth year of treatment
		Childhood and adult history
		The first five years of treatment
		The phase of silence
		The transference–countertransference matrix
		Epilogue
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7 Varieties of silence in the analytic setting
		Structural silence
		Unmentalised silence
		Defensive silence
		Enactive silence
		Symbolic silence
		Contemplative silence
		Regenerative silence
		Blank silence
		Concluding remarks
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8 Silence as a manifestation of resistance
		Silence as resistance in the patient
		Analytic silence as an intersubjective impasse
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9 Silence is golden (usually)
		Silence as resistance
		Silence as a pathway to a necessary therapeutic object relationship
		Silence as an element of interpersonal negotiation with the analyst
		Integrative: The roles played by silence in the process of symbolizing: The work of Norbert Freedman and his colleagues
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 10 Winnicott’s capacity for silence in understanding and healing human nature
		Silent communication
		The importance of silence for the individual patient
		Silence as a transitional object
		Silence between the analyst and patient
		Silent communication
		Silent self
		Conclusion: the rest is silence
		References
	Chapter 11 Silence as a condition for analytic listening: Site, situation and process
		I
		II
		III
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12 Silence and silencing of the traumatized
		Trauma and silence
		Silencing the victims of attachment trauma
		Social trauma and the conspiracy of silence
		Silence in the psychoanalytic treatment as a form of silencing and re-traumatization
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part III Research
	Part III Introduction to Part III: Researching silence in (therapeutic) conversation
		Some philological flea cracking
		Observing “observables” deepens the understanding of understanding
		What is it that Conversation Analysts do?
		List of transcription symbols (diacritical signs)
		Transcription symbols
		Pauses and silences – an overview
		Note
		References
	Chapter 13 Measuring silence: The pausing inventory categorization system and a review of findings
		The generation and credibility of the Pausing Inventory Categorization System (PICS)
		Findings
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 14 Pauses are conversations: What they tell us when we listen
		Clinical experience – our point of departure
		Conclusion
		Appendix – original German transcripts
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 15 How to move on after silences: Addressing thought processes to restart conversation
		Introduction
		Data
		Method
		Analysis
		Results
		Discussion
		Appendix
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 16 The interaction order of silent moments in everyday life: Lapses as joint embodied achievements
		Introduction
		Background
		Data and method
		Entering into a lapse
		Navigating out of a lapse
		Conclusions and discussion
		Appendix: Original transcripts
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 17 Speaking that silences: A single case multi-method analysis of a couple’s interview
		Introduction
		Noticeable absence as silenced talk
		The accuse-and-defense scenario
		Invisible loyalties
		Conclusion – toward a typology of interactive silencing
		Appendix – German transcript versions
		Notes
		References
Index