Ship of Thought: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Learning

by Duncan Barford

Overview

Learning is the most basic means by which we can change oursleves. Of all the activities of the mind, learning is perhaps the most fundamental, yet one of the most provocative and difficult to understand. In this fourth volume of the Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, ten new essays by an interdisciplinary array of educationalists, psychoanalysts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367326890
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Series:	The Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barford, Duncan

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction — Psychoanalytic Research on Learning: An Appraisal and Some Suggestions — Is Anything More Interesting Than Sex? The Freudian Perspective on Learning and Teaching — Learning: A Jungian Perspective — On ‘Learning’ and ‘Learning about’: W.R.Bion's Theory of Thinking and Educational Praxis — The Hazards of Curiosity: A Kleinian Perspective on Learning — The Dog's Temper: An Essay on the Vicissitudes of Learning — From the Desire for Knowledge to the Jouissance of Learning: An Approach to Lacan's Theory — Psychological Problems of Writer Identity: Towards a Horneyan Understanding — Winnicott and Education — Lifelong Unlearning — Appendix: Quotations and Aphorisms