ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores the hypothesis: by encouraging/giving permission for polyphonic listening analyst/candidate can become aware of her listening to herself in a new way, and in relation to how the patient hears her and what the patient communicates. In the facilitation of this way of listening the candidate/analyst can begin to trust her own voice and listen in a more open and creative way. The author explains Marion Milner, when referring to Ehrenzweig and polyphonic listening. Milner wrote about her own curiosity and imaginative process as an active "scanning" oscillating between the "diffused wide stare" which she said made "the world seem most intensely real and significant" and the more surface, narrow form of attention. There is a small literature in which the link between jazz and psychoanalysis. There is even smaller number of papers which address and compare the experience of jazz with that of the analytic process.
