Inspiring and innovative, Territorial Listening lucidly addresses psychoanalytic work in critical social situations and public clinics. It brings to Anglophone psychoanalysis a new wealth of clinical experiences and theoretical reflections on listening to the unconscious and on multiple transferences in territories of social exclusion. It represents a huge advance in the creative adaptation of psychoanalysis outside the consulting room, with many moving examples of how this is configured and practised. It will provide a rich diversity of clinical and conceptual tools for years to come. It points the way to an enhanced future for psychoanalysis as an ethical practice and radically extends our ideas of what psychoanalysis can do and be. 

— Joanna Ryan

Author of Class and Psychoanalysis: Landscapes of Inequality

Territorial Listening is an event. Its authors start from the premise that cities and streets, much like dreams, present us with manifest and latent contents that are expressed in unconscious ways. The psychoanalyst does not listen only to an individual utterance but to the territorial relations in which it is embedded and where its meaning lies. Starting from Brazilian scenes of listening, Emília Estivalet Broide and Jorge Broide–together with their many collaborators, the ‘Rede SUR’ or ‘South Network’–construct an entire vocabulary around territorial listening. They ‘listen everywhere’ in the territory, in an embodied manner: in places where people queue for food, in places where police violence takes place, in playgrounds. By adding the concept dispositif to our everyday psychoanalytic vocabularies, this volume points to the possibility of renovation of the psychoanalytic frame, of play and invention.

This volume is presented with a preface by Susana Caló, Ana Minozzo and Raluca Soreanu and a foreword by Elizabeth Danto.

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