Lost subjects, contested objects : toward a psychoanalytic inquiry of learning / Deborah P. Britzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britzman, Deborah P., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning.

Psychoanalysis.

Ethics.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of love and hate in learning and an argument for why educators might begin with consideration of these psychical dynamics when interpreting the conflictive dreams of education. This book argues for education's reconsideration of what psychoanalytic theories of love and hate might mean to the design of learning and pedagogy. Britzman sets in tension three perspectives: studies of education, studies in psychoanalysis, and studies of ethics to consider how larger social and cultural histories live in the small history of the subject. Britzman casts her net widely to consider questions of sex education, the work of Anna Freud in reencountering the Diary of Anne Frank, reading practices in pedagogy, anti-racist pedagogy and the question of love, and the arguments between education and psychoanalysis. Deborah P. Britzman is Associate Professor of Education, Social and Political Thought, and Women's Studies at York University. She is author of Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach , also published by SUNY Press.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning

1. The Arts of Getting by

2. On Making Education Inconsolable

3. On Becoming a "Little Sex Researcher": Some Comments on a Polymorphously Perverse Curriculum

4. Queer Pedagogy and Its Strange Techniques

5. Narcissism of Minor Differences and the Problem of Antiracist Pedagogy

6. "That Lonely Discovery": Anne Frank, Anna Freud, and the Question of Pedagogy

Notes

1. The Arts of Getting By

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-187) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-9758-5