Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires

Author:   Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 September 2022
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Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires


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In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of social interaction and cultural production in the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world. Marsilli-Vargas develops the concept of genres of listening to demonstrate that hearers listen differently, depending on where, how, and to whom they are listening. In particular, she focuses on psychoanalytic listening as a specific genre. Portenos (citizens of Buenos Aires) have developed a ""psychoanalytic ear"" that emerges during conversational encounters in everyday interactions in which participants offer different interpretations of the hidden meaning the words carry. Marsilli-Vargas does not analyze these interpretations as impositions or interruptions but as productive exchanges. By outlining how psychoanalytic listening operates as a genre, Marsilli-Vargas opens up ways to imagine other modes of listening and forms of social interaction.

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Author:   Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781478015918


ISBN 10:   1478015918
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Author’s Note  viii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: A City of Listeners  1 1. For a Theory of Genres of Listening  25 2. The Music in the Words  48 3. “What You Really Mean Is . . .”: Listening to “That Which Is Not Said”  80 4. The Psychoanalytic Field in Buenos Aires  106 5. The Mass Mediation of Psychoanalytic Listening  137 Conclusion: Final Resonances  174 Notes  185 References  203 Index  223

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"""Marsilli-Vargas’s book is an exemplary ethnography, weaving together rich empirical materials with a deeply contextualised case-study to develop novel theoretical insights on a topic of central concern to Sound Studies. . . . Marsilli-Vargas develops important conceptual tools for a nuanced understanding of listening while making a significant contribution to fields such cultural history, Latin American Studies, and the anthropology of sound."" -- Chris Batterman Cháirez * Sound Studies *"


"""Marsilli-Vargas’s book is an exemplary ethnography, weaving together rich empirical materials with a deeply contextualised case-study to develop novel theoretical insights on a topic of central concern to Sound Studies. . . . Marsilli-Vargas develops important conceptual tools for a nuanced understanding of listening while making a significant contribution to fields such cultural history, Latin American Studies, and the anthropology of sound."" -- Chris Batterman Cháirez * Sound Studies * “Genres of Listening is a monumental addition to linguistic and anthropological understanding of listening that fulfills each of its promises.” -- Jeremy A. Rud * Linguistic Anthropology * “The book helps us to understand this culture as an urban phenomenon and to study it along with coexisting discourses and cultures of self-care that live beyond the capital of Argentina. . . . Genres of Listening will provide the readers with a deep understanding of the undergoing transformations in Argentina’s more intimate relationships.”   -- Kristin E. Yarris * Bulletin of Latin American Research * “Genres of Listening is a valuable study, a very important first step that will be useful for those who research and teach in postgraduate courses about the Argentine middle classes and their ways of thinking and acting.” -- Sergio E. Visacovsky * American Ethnologist *"


Marsilli-Vargas's book is an exemplary ethnography, weaving together rich empirical materials with a deeply contextualised case-study to develop novel theoretical insights on a topic of central concern to Sound Studies. . . . Marsilli-Vargas develops important conceptual tools for a nuanced understanding of listening while making a significant contribution to fields such cultural history, Latin American Studies, and the anthropology of sound. -- Chris Batterman Chairez * Sound Studies *


Marsilli-Vargas's book is an exemplary ethnography, weaving together rich empirical materials with a deeply contextualised case-study to develop novel theoretical insights on a topic of central concern to Sound Studies. . . . Marsilli-Vargas develops important conceptual tools for a nuanced understanding of listening while making a significant contribution to fields such cultural history, Latin American Studies, and the anthropology of sound. --Chris Batterman Chairez Sound Studies (12/28/2022 12:00:00 AM)


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Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University.

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