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Anthropology and psychoanalysis both depend on listening to the speaking human subject. They listen to hear and reconstruct the other’s inner experience—the analyst to access the mind of a troubled person seeking relief from repressed intrapsychic conflicts, the anthropologist to understand the unconscious cultural assumptions that undergird his or her informant’s beliefs. Both disciplines center on the symbolic world articulated by language and the human world constructed by words and by linguistic structures. Both look for the unarticulated assumptions or fantasies about life and reality that entangle the neurotic subject in difficulties relating to others or embed the cultural subject in the reality shaped by his or her culture (Hallowell 1954).
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