The creation of listening-flânerie: a psychoanalytic study with socioeducators

Abstract

The creation of circles for conversation between cautious teenagers of a socio-educational institution promoted by the respective Research Center of this study allowed us to widen the spaces of listening to socioeducators. The massive presentation of reality using the location aesthetics, the scenes witnessed in the institution and narratives provided by these actors was based on two theoretical assumptions: psychoanalytic listening and Benjamin’s reading of Baudelaire’s flâneur position. The flâneur, as the one who imprints a distended time into urgency, was considered the physical correspondent for floating attention. Psychoanalysis and flânerie were combined to free spaces for narration, through which educators could revisit lost points of social history and their own history. Lastly, this text presents listening-flânerie as another way for listening and psychoanalytic research to be present in such scenarios.