After-Education : Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning

by Britzman, Deborah P.

• ISBN13: 9780791456736
• ISBN10: 0791456730
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

In After-Education Deborah P. Britzman raises the startling question, What is education that it should give us such trouble? She explores a series of historic and contemporary psychoanalytic arguments over the nature of reality and fantasy for thinking through the force and history of education. Drawing from the theories of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, she analyzes experiences of difficult knowledge, pedagogy, group psychology, theory, and questions of loneliness in learning education. Throughout the book, education appears and is transformed in its various guises: as a nervous condition, as social relation, as authority, as psychological knowledge, as quality of psychical reality, as fact of natality, as the thing between teachers and students, as an institution, and as a play between reality and fantasy.

Author Biography

Deborah P. Britzman is Professor of Education, Social and Political Thought, and Women's Studies at York University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Difficult Education	1	(32)
The Freud-Klein Controversies As a Problem of Education	33	(38)
Why Return to Anna Freud?	71	(26)
``Thoughts Awaiting Thinkers'': Group Psychology and Educational Life	97	(28)
Theory Kindergarten	125	(24)
Loneliness in Education: Toward a Compassionate Inquiry	149	(22)
Notes	171	(26)
Bibliography	197	(12)
Index	209