The psychoanalytical listening to archaic in session

Abstract

The idea of ​​the archaic is found in the foundations of Freud's psychoanalysis, but it was the exploration of new forms of contemporary clinical practice, namely the clinic of limit functionings, that imposed the need to resume questioning the archaic, in a different way from its approach based on listening to original fantasies, a traditional form of listening in psychoanalysis. In fact, it is a listening that falls short of the fantasies that these clinics require, with a therapeutic approach that needs to focus on other forms of language besides verbal language: focusing on the language of the body and the act, and also on listening to the body and sensoriality in verbal language. [...]