Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening

In the article Close Reading Is For Everyone, Dan Sinykin writes,

So what is close reading? As my co-editor and I write in our book, “Close reading is the practice of paying attention to a passage of text to account for at least one aspect of its meaning and to make an argument about how it works.”

I found this article interesting for its insights into reading. However, what it made me think about the most was the way that close reading might be a metaphor for how a psychoanalyst listens to the speech of an analysand.

It seems to me that psychoanalytic listening is a form of close listening, where the analyst pays attention to speech and then, through interpretation, helps the speaker account for at least one aspect of the speech's meaning and reveal something about how the unconscious is at work through the speech.