By Christopher Bollas

Bollas eloquently argues for a go back to our realizing of ways Freudian psychoanalysis works subconscious to subconscious. Failure to persist with Freud's easy assumptions approximately psychoanalytical listening has ended in the abandonment of attempting to find "the common sense of series" which Freud considered as the first approach we convey subconscious pondering. In large interviews and follow-up essays, all taking place in 2006, we persist with Christopher Bollas exploring his most modern and radical problem to modern psychoanalysis. The Freudian Moment, Bollas argues, realizes a phylogenetic preconception that has existed for tens of hundreds of thousands of years. the discovery of psychoanalysis realizes this preconception and institutes a profound leap forward in human relations.

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The Freudian moment

Bollas eloquently argues for a go back to our knowing of the way Freudian psychoanalysis works subconscious to subconscious. Failure to keep on with Freud's easy assumptions approximately psychoanalytical listening has led to the abandonment of attempting to find "the good judgment of series" which Freud considered as the first approach we show subconscious pondering.

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I think it knows the difference between the psychoanalyst and a taxi driver, symphony conductor, or plumber. As such, analysands unconsciously present and represent those symptoms, conflicts, character dilemmas that have troubled them, so they set about working with us. I think it is also interesting to notice that there is a certain kind of psychic pace to each analysand, a way that they take time working on several issues. Clearly those lines of thought that are ready to come into consciousness after a period of unconscious work between analysand and analyst are those that come closer to the surface and are more easily perceived by the psychoanalyst.

Then there is timbre, which is the tonal quality of a speaker’s voice. This is a subtle difference but it refers to the different qualities of say a piano or a violin. People have different timbres to their voice. They will also vary their tone colours according to the subject matter on their mind. If we take all of the above together—stress, pitch, beat, timbre, duration—we have some of the ingredients of vocal texture. In musical language this would refer to the density of a work. Clearly, if many different notes are being played all with different timbres, if the metres vary and so forth, we have a dense articulation.

I can say, “Today I must go shopping”, but that is not colourful. I could say, “Today I must go shopping for food”; that adds colour. qxd 3/19/08 12:38 PM Page 43 ARTICULATIONS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 111 2 3 4 5 6 711 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 211 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 911 43 will go to the market and look for some meat and fish”, which gives more colour to the utterance. But if I were to say, “Today I shall go to Mr Steele’s, on Flask Walk, to see if I can find some lamb shanks and then I will go to the Hampstead Fish Market to see if I can find some wild Norwegian salmon”, the listener will have experienced a more colourful and specific utterance than those preceding it.

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