Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning

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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 ...
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Overview

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.
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Advocating for revisiting the relevance of psychoanalytic inquiry for learning and teaching, Britzman (education, social and political thought; women's studies, York U.) confronts educators with provocative commentary on: private desires vs. education's repression, a polymorphously perverse curriculum, queer pedagogy, the narcissism of minor differences in relation to an antiracist pedagogy, and the teaching of contentious history (e.g. the Holocaust as represented by ). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780791438077
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/1998
  • Pages: 199

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning 1
Ch. 1 The Arts of Getting By 23
Ch. 2 On Making Education Inconsolable 49
Ch. 3 On Becoming a "Little Sex Researcher": Some Comments on a Polymorphously Perverse Curriculum 63
Ch. 4 Queer Pedagogy and Its Strange Techniques 79
Ch. 5 Narcissism of Minor Differences and the Problem of AntiRacist Pedagogy 97
Ch. 6 "That Lonely Discovery": Anne Frank, Anna Freud, and the Question of Pedagogy 113
Notes 137
Bibliography 169
Index 189
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