Silence as a condition for analytic listening

Howard Levine wrote a chapter about the psychology of the analyst (and we always lack those) focused on silence. Apart from his explorations of Bion (specifically, the ideas of reverie and negative capability), Levine mostly deals with (non-Lacanian) French psychoanalytic tradition, particularly Green, and sees Freud as the foundation for them all. He acknowledges the other possible roles of silence in the psychoanalytic setting, most of which are thoroughly discussed in earlier chapters, and focuses on the notion of silence as a condition for analytic listening.