Practicing listening places: dialogues between psychology and the concept of place of talks

Abstract

In order to respond ethically to the emergency demand of the places of speech, we propose the discussion of a locus of listening of the subjects of privileges. We play a game with the word listening of psychology, therapeutic / psychological listening, to go beyond the term restricted to the instrument of psychologists and bring the urgency of listening as an exercise of otherness. We make an interdisciplinary movement by aligning a concept that comes from feminism with another from psychology, because we believe that such a dialogue is extremely important for a contemporary psychology that positions itself politically and ethically in the face of the oppressions of gender, race, class and culture. At the same time this discussion may contribute to a better comprehension to the question about locus of enunciation (place of speech), so currently debated.