Music Speaks Us: Some Psychoanalytic Considerations on Music Therapy

Abstract

The psychoanalytic interest in is quite recent, if it is true that the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, has never devoted a research to as such. Nevertheless, we think that therapy could benefit from a proficuous dialogue with psychoanalysis. In this manuscript, using different psychoanalytical tools, we have provided a unitary interpretation of the meaning and the potentiality of therapy, showing why has to be considered the primordial authentic language and in which sense music speaks us (to paraphrase Heidegger's famous statement: Die Sprache spricht, nicht der Mensch). Since ancient times it is well known that has a therapeutic effect and power, but only recently neuroscience has confirmed the biological effects of on human brain. Music acts as containing and structuring factor that can heal the psychological wounds of the Self and feeds and nourishes the patient himself. During the therapy session, the patient should recover and re-discover his early and genuine relationship with music. He goes back to his infant-hood and becomes familiar again with a pre- verbal language, which is the authentic language of his Self.