Freud and Education

by Deborah P. Britzman

Overview

The concept of education—its dangers and promises and its illusions and revelations—threads throughout Sigmund Freud’s body of work. This introductory volume by psychoanalytic authority, Deborah P. Britzman, explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach. It defines how fundamental Freudian concepts such as the psychical apparatus, the drives, the unconscious, the development of morality, and transference have changed throughout Freud’s oeuvre. An ideal text for courses in education studies, human development, and curriculum studies, Freud and Education concludes with new Freudian-influenced approaches to the old dilemmas of educational research, theory, and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136899188
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/18/2010
Series:	Routledge Key Ideas in Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	315 KB

About the Author

Deborah P. Britzman is Distinguished Professor of Research at York University, Toronto and Psychoanalyst.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Introduction

1. Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Education: An Introduction

2. Freud’s Education and Ours

3. The Transference-love or How Not to Write a Manual

4. Group Psychology and the Problem of Love

5. ‘Wild Education’: See Under Unsolved Problems Of

Editorial Reviews

"[Britzman’s] overall theme of "wild education," in tandem with Freud’s notion of "wild psycho-analysis," provides readers with a nuanced treatment of "learning from difficulties" and reiterates her own concept of "difficult knowledge"…Recommended [for] graduate and research collections."—CHOICE

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