Talks On Psychoanalysis The Mystery, Again - Mariano Horenstein
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Oct 14, 2025 Mariano Horenstein, an Argentine psychoanalyst and author, delves into contemporary psychoanalytic listening to sexuality. He explores how the history of hysteria and psychosis has shaped analytic language and challenges traditional assumptions. Horenstein argues for the trans clinic as a pivotal paradigm, emphasizing the importance of inclusive language in psychoanalysis. He discusses how these shifts not only return sexuality to the forefront but also demand flexibility in listening styles, ultimately celebrating the enigmatic nature of sexual identity.
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Listening As Psychoanalytic Method
- Psychoanalysis privileges listening as a distinct epistemic mode separate from the visual approach.
- Mariano Horenstein argues the analyst's pact of even attention and abstinence creates clinical possibilities unique to listening.
Untimely Contemporaneity In Analysis
- Contemporary analysts should be untimely sensors, deploying anachronism as a resource to apprehend the zeitgeist.
- Horenstein invokes Agamben to show how updating the past allows the future to modify meanings in analysis.
The Analysand Is Co-Created
- The analysand is co-constructed by the analyst's particular mode of listening and free-associative device.
- Horenstein emphasizes psychoanalysis as case-by-case craft where listening produces a new kind of speech and subject.
