(In)visibilities

gaze, recognition and the resistances to listening

Abstract

This article takes as a guiding principle the theme of invisibilities, going through clinical situations experienced in the field of psychoanalysis without walls, while assisting adolescents in social vulnerability. Using psychoanalysis as a theoretical support, the article seeks to contribute to the debate on the issue on the basis of reflections that emerged from clinical impasses experienced in this field, shedding light on some transference and countertransference incidents – such as the resistance to listening – that may arise when such opposite places in the social structure are occupied by analyst and patient.