176 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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

"[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