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The mobilization around race and the phenomenon of disciplinary self-scrutiny located in the question “who speaks” swept across the psychoanalytic landscape after the killing of George Floyd in 2020, ushering in a long overdue interrogation of the white supremacy and inequitable power dynamics embedded in our institutes and consulting rooms. As Joint Editors in Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, we have been raising the questions: “Who reads?” and “Who writes?” expanding our canon across disciplines, race and culture. And, In This Issue, we take up the novel question, “Who listens?”
Each of these questions ask that we meditate on the quality of “the field” and nature of “the page.” Whether that inquiry be a theoretical deconstruction of core concepts, a reimagining of the interpersonal and intersubjective field in the consulting room or an effort to challenge the “blankness” of the traditional journal page, it behooves us to listen carefully and intersectionally because reading and writing fund an important collective domain where hopes for the future are inscribed.
To that end, in this issue, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 32:1, we present three very different projects each of which challenges us to listen deeply toward a rethinking of the blank page. Perhaps for the first time in a major psychoanalytic journal, we offer the transcript of a podcast that has been only lightly edited to preserve the cadence and communicative intent of the original. Podcasts have become one of the most profound media formats of our time. As we write, there are over two million internationally recognized podcasts. Among the more than two dozen that focus on psychoanalysis, the listener can catch up with the latest Books on Psychoanalysis, sample one influencer’s Neurotic Emissions or glean the Marxist-Lacanian perspective of Jouissance Vampires. We are proud to bring this emerging “tradition” to the pages of our journal by presenting an episode of the podcast, Couched, that was recorded live a