Listening To Yourself Listening To Another

Abstract

Jeffrey Eaton’s lecture “Listening to yourself listening to another” is a meditation on Bion’s concept ‘reverie’. It is a personal statement bringing together reflections on Bion’s work. A vignette from a child analysis is offered to illustrate the complexity of the listening process. This lecture can be considered a prelude to Eaton’s forthcoming book An Open Gate: Facets of Psychoanalytic Listening where he explores the influence of figures like Bion, Meltzer, Tustin and Eigen and the development of a psychoanalytic listening sensibility.

Jeff Eaton

Jeffrey L. Eaton, MA is a graduate and faculty member of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a member of the IPA, and a Board Certified Psychoanalyst. He received the Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture Prize in 2006 and has been the Beta Rank Memorial Lecturer at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the Margaret Jarvie Memorial Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, a presenter at The Tavistock, London, and the 2017 International Guest Lecturer for the Australian Psychoanalytic Society. He has also been a frequent guest speaker at the International Frances Tustin Trust meetings as well as at International Bion meetings. He was a founder, instructor, consultant and Chair of the Steering Committee of The Alliance Community Psychotherapy Clinic, a project of The Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study. He is currently on the board of the Frances Tustin Trust. He teaches and consults in Australia, Germany, Scotland, Israel, Canada, and throughout the United States. He is the author of A Fruitful Harvest: Essays after Bion as well as many chapters in edited collections. His forthcoming book will be published in early 2026 and is titled: An Open Gate: Facets of Psychoanalytic Listening. More Information can be found at www.jleaton.com

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