Reflexivity is often emphasized in current teacher training, but the content is not always fully grasped and the conditions for the possibility of reflection in the sense of systematic reflection and analysis of school practice processes are not examined more closely. Practical support tends to focus on providing tips and tricks, thus creating a false sense of security. It often remains a pseudo-reflection, a mere linguistic duplication of existing ideas guiding action, if these are not linked to feelings and personal experience and are not linked to theories, translated into terms, or conceptually specified, which would be necessary for real reflection (cf. Hilzensauer, 2008). The research project pro-inklusiv-reflexiv develops a concept for an accompanying internship course (“Praktikum”) in teacher’s training that focuses on promoting students' ability to become aware of the experiences and feelings associated with the internship and to express them in language. This translation work makes experience available and thus reduces uncertainty. It serves the "primary task" (Rice, 1963) of promoting the subjectivation of students in the internship and thus initiating a process of reflexive professionalization. The article reconstructs the easily disrupted path from pre-mentalizing to mentalizing thinking (Schultz-Venrath, 2013, p. 90ff.) based on scenes from internship seminars, paying particular attention to the emotional influencing factors. The highly narcissistic vulnerability of students in educational and teaching situations that are so significant and demanding for their professional biographies, the omnipresent transference dynamics, a refusal to know as a collective attempt at defense, and the common students’ narratives about students as alien others are worked out in their function for the students' striving for security. Finally, the contextual factors that inhibit and promote mentalization in school and university are discussed.

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