LRO 346: "If a Tree Were to Fall on an Island Where There Was No Psychoanalyst: On the Ethical Status of Sound"

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This I could not do
(Leonard Cohen, The Partisan)

LRO 346
25th May 2022

If a Tree Were to Fall on an Island Where There Was No Psychoanalyst: On the Ethical Status of Sound
Yaron Gilat | Petach-Tikva, Israel

“But what need can an analyst have for an extra ear, when it sometimes seems that two are already too many, since he runs headlong into the fundamental misunderstanding brought on by the relationship of understanding? I repeatedly tell my students: 'Don’t try to understand!' … May one of your ears become as deaf as the other one must be acute. And that is the one that you should lend to listen for sounds and phonemes, words, locutions, and sentences, not forgetting pauses, scansions, cuts, periods, and parallelisms, for it is in these that the word-for-word transcription can be prepared, without which analytic intuition has no basis or object" [1]…. [Read full article]