Listening to art: some considerations

Abstract

In this paper the author discusses the problem about fruition of art from the book edited by Sergio Givone and Graziella Magherini Listening to Art. Figural Arts, Literature, Music (in English translation: Nicomp, Firenze 2014). It deals with the theme of listening – a code which certainly characterizes very well both the world of art, in all its diverse forms, and the world of psychoanalysis. In both sectors, the term “listening” is understood in its broadest sense, as a disposition and openness towards the other and their opacity: opacity of the artistic creation, and the "opacity" characterizing the analyst-patient relationship and the relationship between a work of art and its public.