A psychoanalyst in the classroom : on the human condition in education / Deborah P. Britzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britzman, Deborah P., 1952- author.

Series:

SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education.

SUNY Series, Transforming Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Studies in Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning, Psychology of.

Psychoanalysis and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom provides rich descriptions of the surprising ways individuals handle matters of love and hate when dealing with reading and writing in the classroom. With wit and sharp observations, Deborah P. Britzman advocates for a generous recognition of the vulnerabilities, creativity, and responsibilities of university learning. Britzman develops themes that include the handling of technique in psychoanalysis and pedagogy, the uses of theory, regression to adolescence, the inner life of gender, the untold story of the writing block, and everyday mistakes in teaching and learning. She also examines the relationship between mental health and experiences of teaching and learning.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom; Necessities; Intimacies; Characters; Germs of Learning; Conditions; Clinical Characters: "The Dictator and the Scribe"; A Path to Free Association?; 2 "An Unexpected Novelty"; Simple Things, or The Wish to Learn; Knock, Knock. Who Is There?; The Passion for Writing; Minding the Gap; The Unwilling Arrival of Pedagogy; Knock, Knock. Who Is There? The Wish to Learn; Anxiety; Transference Neurosis; Transference Postscript; 3 What Is the Use of Theory?; A School of Transference; Literary Life; To Listen for the Subject of Theory

Writing InhibitionsFear of Theory; Working Through; Encore!; 4 The Adolescent Teacher; Always Again; The Impossible Professions; Impossible Adolescence; Entre les murs, or Between the Walls; 5 On the Madness of Lecturing on Gender; Madness; Affect; Clinical Knowledge; Clinical Material; Lecture Madness; 6 The Untold Story of the Writing Block; Anxiety; Symptoms; The Letter; To Write or Not to Write?; Affiliation, Influence, and Misreading; "Children-No-Longer"; 7 The Psychopathologies of Everyday Education; Everyday Material; Sleeping; Waking Up; Lateness; A Rescue Fantasy

The Missing Case of the Professor's Mistakes: A Favorable Sequence in Three ActsAct One; Act Two; Act Three; The Lateness of Interpretation; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438457345

1438457340

OCLC:

919720013