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

Author:   Deborah P. Britzman
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   199
Publication Date:   19 March 1998
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Author:   Deborah P. Britzman
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780791438084


ISBN 10:   0791438082
Pages:   199
Publication Date:   19 March 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"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 Bibliography Index"

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Britzman is the most eloquent proponent in education today insisting on the return of the educator's attention to Freudian theory/method. This is not a comforting insistence, but is made with careful argument and ethical force. She starts with the psychoanalytic insight that education is an interference with various (often unconscious) implications for learning, particularly in regard to the play of affect and its attachments (specifically those of love and hate). This means there is always conflict in learning, conflict not only between the teacher and learner, but crucially for this book, within the learner herself. Given its premise, Britzman unravels how institutionally mediated education is then necessarily uncertain, indeterminate, ambivalent. This is a position with radical implications for the increasingly rationalized, outcome-driven forms of teaching which have become so prevalent in the English-speaking world. It is an argument that insists we look again at what we call learning and at the ethical obligations such a reexamination elicits. - Roger I. Simon, University of Toronto The scholarship is impeccable, the arguments rigorous. Above all, the book avoids the substitution of jargon, whether psychoanalytic or 'educationist,' for thought; in its writing, scholarship, and arguments, it renders a certain difficult labor of thinking unavoidable. It's an outstanding piece of work, an important statement from a major thinker whose work should figure more prominently in the intellectual scene than it currently does. - William Haver, Binghamton University She writes with incredible feeling and verve, never missing the chance for either the wit or high seriousness that comes of being sensitive to the presence of continuing uncertainties. This is a book to meet the strong and growing demand for Britzman's work. It is a work of serious critique and hope. - John Willinsky, University of British Columbia


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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.

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