ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the question what distinguishes the listening skills of the relational analyst is what Reik called listening with the third ear; Singer called the viscera and Ogden reverie. Stuart Pizer refers to this deep listening as generous involvement, and in this chapter speaks to how affective involvement is central in our work while acknowledging the tensions inherent in the analyst's efforts of deep listening and attunement within the analytic dyad. In 1953, Harry Stack Sullivan provided a compelling metaphor for the affective tug of analytic recognition in his concept of the "tension of tenderness". Corpt ventures a list of features of what she calls "clinical generosity". Nathan who was a world-class economist, the kind of teacher, theorist, researcher, and contributor, has been awarded major recognition prizes in Economics. But, for all his significance in his field, he has repeatedly fallen short of full and complete application of himself in the refinement or completion of his projects.
