AFFECTION, POETICS AND LANGUAGE.|AFFECTS, POÉTIQUE ET LANGAGE.|AFFEKTE, POETISCHES UND SPRACHE.|Affetti, poetico e linguaggio|AFECTOS, POÉTICA Y LENGUAJE

Analytical listening is one of the most complex forms of relational exchange. The work aims to deepen from the theoretical point of view how the understanding between patient and analyst solicits an exchange that goes beyond words. Through the theory of the multiple code, the poetic function of the patients’ language will be interpreted and how word games and multiple meanings activate new listening keys in the analyst’s associative flow. Taking up Jakobson’s theory of linguistic style, the accent is placed on the poetic function of language as that function that captures aspects between words, action, co-action, repetition lead to the transformation of meanings and to new processes of symbolization. The relationship between action, listening and the symbolic process activates a circle of emotional communication, which will be explained through a clinical vignette.