Freud, Lacan, Zizek and Education: Exploring Unconscious Investments in Policy and Practice

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Claudia Lapping (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)

Freud, Lacan, Zizek and Education

Exploring Unconscious Investments in Policy and Practice

Claudia Lapping (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)

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Routledge
30 June 2020

Philosophy & theory of education; Teacher training; Teaching skills & techniques

Series: Education and Social Theory

All areas of education policy and practice are driven by unconscious investments in ignorance, or idealised images of transformation of the individual, society and economy. The promise of fulfilment and associated threats of disappointment or destruction tend to dominate conscious accounts of education. Other more vulnerable or unspeakable aspects of our engagements with education are covered over when we account for learning, and justify teaching as professionals, policy makers and researchers; but they leak out in slips, lapses, emphasis, paradox and contradiction.

Freud’s account of resistance and repetition; Lacan’s theorisation of the role of language and desire; and Zizek’s elaboration of these ideas in a theory of ideology and enjoyment – all provide tools for exploring the vulnerable, uncomfortable and often surprising other side of education: the hidden, unconscious and unspoken desires that we invest in educational institutions and practices. This collection offers glimpses of this other side of education produced in empirical studies using a variety of methodological approaches: practice-based theoretical speculation, policy analysis, ethnography, interviews and free associative methods, as well as ideological critique of the field of critical educational practice and research. The book foregrounds political and unconscious aspects of investments in the fields of education and educational research.

The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in Taylor and Francis journals.

Edited by: Claudia Lapping (Institute of Education University of London UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 326g
ISBN: 9780367586140
ISBN 10: 0367586142
Series: Education and Social Theory
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claudia Lapping is a Reader in Psychosocial Studies and Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. She is interested in the use of psychoanalysis in empirical research methodology, in unconscious processes in educational institutions, practices, and in the production and recontextualisation of legitimized knowledge. She is the author of Psychoanalysis in Social Research (2011) and the co-editor of Knowing and Not Knowing: Thinking Psychosocially about Learning and Resistance to Learning (with Tamara Bibby, 2016).