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Pedagogical Desire Authority, Seduction and the Question of Ethics Jan Jagodzinski |
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2006.
What is the right pedagogical distance for learning to take place? What should be the teacher's role concerning a student's desire? Ethically speaking, how are we to understand the dialectic between desire and the drive? Are we obligated to help students mourn the knowledge that they must let go? Can ignorance (which sounds pejorative) be pedagogically useful as that which is unsaid and repressed? When the pedagogical distance collapses and seduction takes place, can such behavior be excused? These are just some of the questions that are raised throughout this collection by the authors. Lacanian psychoanalysis presents a challenge to our usual understanding of the subject as formulated by ego psychology, as well as the discursive subject of postmodernism. Can Lacan's tripartite psychic registers of the Real, Imaginary, and the Symbolic present the subject in unending intrapsychic conflict? Can pedagogy address this struggle? How do we, as educators, take the notion of the unconscious seriously into account? The authors of this collection engage themselves in such questioning, in some cases examining their own practices and in other cases developing possible strategies with a view of understanding the psychic life of teaching.
CONTENTS: A Strange Introduction: My Apple Thing by Jan Jagodzinski. Psychoanalysis with Pedagogy. Psychoanalysis and Education? by Gustavo Guerra. The Teaching Imaginary: Collective Identity in a Post-Prefixed Age by Derek Briton. The Question of Authority. The Teacher Is a Prick by Doug las Sadao Aoki. Being Outside the Circle: Postmodern Composition, Pedagogy, and Psychoanalytic Theory by Robert Samuels. The Ethics of Transference. Toward a Pedagogy of Symptoms, Anxiety, and Mourned Objects by Marshall Alcorn. The Pedagogical Is the Political: Reconfiguring Pedagogical Mastery by Kirstin Campbell. Pedagogy of Desire. Identity and Desire in the Classroom by Mark Bracher. Sexual/Textual Encounters in the High School: "Beyond" Reader Response Theories by Betty-Anne Schlender. Media Education. Teaching Some Cruel Symptoms by J. C. Couture. Cyberspace, Identity, and the Passion for Ignorance by John Lenzi. A Strange(r) Conclusion. Assessing Lacan's Teaching Within Historical Intellectual Achievements; Or, "Was Lacan a Scientific Educator?" by Harry Garfinkle. Index. | ||
