A psychoanalyst in the classroom. Suggestions and reflections on psychological listening: between complexity, new adolescents, and the struggles of the school environment

This contribution is the result of various reflections developed by the authors in the context of listening experiences in schools. It is the result of many doubts and questions about working in schools, the people that inhabit it, and the role that the psychologist-psychoanalyst can play within it. In presenting our considerations, we are reflecting on the possibility of taking a psychoanalytic approach in a complex institution such as a school, to which we are often called to provide solutions or immediate answers, whereas we should be asking ourselves questions. This is an opportunity to reflect and dwell on the experience of listening in school settings, on what resonates inside psychologists-psychoanalysts, on what they personally experience and encounter once they enter the school. Most of these thoughts concern high schools or secondary schools, where most of our experiences have taken place, but what emerges from this article may also apply to other school contexts.