Le 28 juin 2017
de 16h30 à 17h00
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3204
Séance - Lewin's Legacy: Spaces and Transformations
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Nathan Fleshner
David Lewin’s Figure 0.1 from his monumental Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is well known. In that figure, point s becomes point t by the transformation i. This paper uses Lewin’s Figure 0.1 as the basis for a dialogic model between various analytic interpretations. In doing so, it proposes an additional directional arrow to Lewin’s original diagram, allowing not just the traversal from s toward t, but also t returning to s. Such an addition broaches the idea that two different analyses enter into a dialogue in which each informs the other.
In revising Lewin’s figure, this paper draws on the work of other analysts as well as the psychoanalytic literature. Adele Katz notes that a synthesis of different perspectives is more important than simply an analysis. Katz’s perspective reveals not a reductive analysis commonly attributed to Schenker, but rather a dialogic synthesis between different analytic observations and structural levels. A strikingly similar analytic dialogue has been described by Sigmund Freud and British psychoanalyst, Adam Phillips. In Freud’s description of the analytic process, the analyst and analysand are in dialogue, essentially co-creating an analytic interpretation of the analysand’s unconscious content. These syntheses and constructions are discussed and related to the dialogic process between different music analyses, showing that Lewin’s transformation process is a critical component to our analytic practices. In his essay, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable,” Freud admits that in some sense an analysis is never truly complete, just as shown in my reformation of Lewin’s famous diagram.
