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Book SynopsisThe concept of educationits dangers and promises and its illusions and revelationsthreads 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 development of morality, and transference have changed throughout Freud's oeuvre. An ideal text for courses in education studies, human development, and curriculum studies, Freud and Education concludes with new Freudian-influenced approaches to the old dilemmas of educational research, theory, and practice.
Trade Review"[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
Table of ContentsSeries 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
