Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Professor of psychopathology and clinical psychology at the University of Lyon 2 Lumière and director of the Centre for Research in Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology at the same university. Together with B. Chouvier, she is responsible for the European Network for Creativity and Clinical Studies. Her research interests include the relationship between creativity and clinical practice, the use of artistic methods in therapy, the psychoanalytic approach to creative processes, the relationship between literature and the psychoanalytic practice, child psychopathology, especially autism and psychosis, the homosexuality clinic, AIDS and the body and psychopathology. She is the author of Henri Michaux ou le corps halluciné (1999) and Médiations thérapeutiques et psychose infantile (2007). She has also edited and written chapters in many books. Some of these: “Le psychanalyste à l’écoute de l’œvre: Temporalité et création à partir de l’œvre picturale d’ Henri Michaux”, C. Masson et al., Psychisme et création: La sexualité infantile (2010); “La médiation thérapeutiques du conte dans la psychose infantile et dans l’autisme”, Contes et divans, ed. R. Kaës (2012). She also has an article published in Turkish “The Strange Transgender Figure in Almadovar Cinema” (Cogito, 2012).
Listening to Sounds in Session and Working with Archaic Sounds
In the psychoanalytic clinic, listening for meaning is not limited to the verbal plane; we also listen to the variations in prosody, intonation, timbre, intensity and rhythm that accompany speech. Listening also involves the discovery of voices within the patient, which are both an internal phenomenon and the voice of another that lives within the subject. This presentation will suggest different ways of listening to voices that vary from session to session and that make it possible to take into account archaic material beyond fantasies. Before concentrating on psychoanalytic treatment, it will be mentioned therapeutic work that establishes close links between the sound mirror and the tactile mirror, referring to arrangements in the treatment of psychotic and autistic children. Thanks to this work, it is possible to restart the initial construction of the tactile and vocal envelopes, which are closely interrelated from intrauterine life. In the light of the aforementioned pediatric clinic, the dynamics of co-creation between the patient and the analyst will be discussed in the light of the analyst’s work of listening to the sonic dimension of meaning. In this approach, the analyst sees the emergence of different sonic forms as a manifestation of organizing patterns in the transference and as a narrative in sonic language of the history of the infant’s bonds with its first objects In his 1937 article “Constructions in Analysis”, Freud mentions the possibility in the treatment of non-psychotic patients of reinvesting through hallucination in something seen or heard “at a time when the child did not yet know how to speak”. Thus, instead of recollection, he presents evidence that archaic auditory experiences are revitalized in the form of sensations that are linked to preverbalization and experienced through hallucination. The main thrust of the presentation will be to examine the different forms of analytical techniques that allow for the symbolization of the return of sound in the form of unsubjectivized early experiences.