After-education : Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and psychoanalytic histories of learning / Deborah P. Britzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britzman, Deborah P., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and education.

Learning, Psychology of.

Freud, Anna, 1895-1982.

Freud, Anna.

Klein, Melanie.

Physical Description:

viii, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

In After-Education Deborah P. Britzman raises the startling question, What is education that it should give us such trouble? She explores a series of historic and contemporary psychoanalytic arguments over the nature of reality and fantasy for thinking through the force and history of education. Drawing from the theories of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, she analyzes experiences of difficult knowledge, pedagogy, group psychology, theory, and questions of loneliness in learning education. Throughout the book, education appears and is transformed in its various guises: as a nervous condition, as social relation, as authority, as psychological knowledge, as quality of psychical reality, as fact of natality, as the thing between teachers and students, as an institution, and as a play between reality and fantasy.

Contents:

1 Difficult Education 1

2 The Freud-Klein Controversies As a Problem of Education 33

3 Why Return to Anna Freud? 71

4 "Thoughts Awaiting Thinkers": Group Psychology and Educational Life 97

5 Theory Kindergarten 125

6 Loneliness in Education: Toward a Compassionate Inquiry 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.

ISBN:

0791456749

0791456730

OCLC:

50034832