ABSTRACT
This chapter has various themes: the analyst's listening and the artist's looking, what kind of investigation psychoanalysis can be, experience that is non-verbal but not pre-verbal, states of mind and states of being. Raphael shows us an external space that seems boundless, and makes visible within it an interior space separated off by a purely psychological enclosure. Cesar Botella's and Sara Botella's book is entitled The Work of Psychic Figurability, and the word 'figurability' is a deliberate neologism. Studies on Hysteria, where the history of psychoanalytic listening begins, shows Sigmund Freud well entrenched in such a mode. Freud called The Brothers Karamazov 'the most magnificent novel ever written', and said 'before the problem of the creative artist analysis must, alas, lay down its arms'. In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud also describes the topographic and formal regression. After Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and the cubist paintings that he and Georges Braque created, the world looked different.
