RESUMO: Este artigo traz considerações sobre um obstáculo identificado no trabalho clínico com pacientes internados em hospital geral: o manejo protocolar da transferência, que torna a escuta ruidosa e inviabiliza o manejo de conteúdos inconscientes. Delineamos o trabalho no hospital e seu cotidiano, definindo o campo psicanalítico de atuação. Norteados por uma vinheta clínica, discutimos dificuldades próprias do cotidiano hospitalar que imporiam impasses na prática. Concluímos que a escuta psicanalítica independe do contexto, estando atrelada à disposição e formação do praticante. É necessária, portanto, interrogação constante da prática - na supervisão e análise pessoal - para suspender pressuposições pessoais acerca do caso.

Abstract: The present article aims to make considerations about an obstacle that was presented during the clinical psychoanalytic work undertaken with patients admitted to a general hospital: the protocolled handling of the transference. The scope of work of the hospital environment and its daily routine was circumscribed, and thus the psychoanalytic field was outlined. Through a clinical vignette, difficulties that are unique to the hospital’s daily routine and which may result in deadlocks to clinical work were discussed. We conclude that maintaining a psychoanalytic mode of listening does not depend on the context, being intimately related to the psychoanalyst’s personal trajectory and studies. As such, a constant interrogation of one’s practice, through supervision and personal analysis, is necessary so as to suspend any assumptions regarding the case.