After-Education
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After-Education

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

After-Education

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning

About this book

Uses psychoanalytic theories of learning to explore contemporary issues in education.

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.

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Table of contents

  1. AFTER-EDUCATION
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. 1. DIFFICULT EDUCATION
  5. 2. THE FREUD–KLEIN CONTROVERSIES AS A PROBLEM OF EDUCATION
  6. 3. WHY RETURN TO ANNA FREUD?
  7. 4. “THOUGHTS AWAITING THINKERS”: GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL LIFE
  8. 5. THEORY KINDERGARTEN
  9. 6. LONELINESS IN EDUCATION: TOWARD A COMPASSIONATE INQUIRY
  10. NOTES
  11. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  12. INDEX