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 pro-pose 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 be-yond the term restricted to the instrument of psychologists and bring the urgency of lis-tening 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 ques-tion about “locus of enunciation” (place of speech), so currently debated.