Session Information
13 SES 08 C, Tacit Dimensions of Learning and Teaching
Symposium
Contribution
Relationships with the Other involves an ethical dimension according to Lacan, Levinas, Buber and Stein. The Other is unknowable according to both Lacan and Levinas. It is beyond, someone which can never be completely understood. For Levinas, the Other manifests itself as a face and the face can only be changed by violence. Attempts to understand the incomprehensible by making the Other similar to someone previously known is doing violence onto the other, metaphysical violence according to Levinas. Todd writes that in response to the Other we must develop a special kind of listening, a passive preverbal listening. The listener must avoid making meaning out of language. Disconnecting the ego’s creation of meaning brings forth the subject according to Lacan (preverbal does not mean pre-symbolic). Learning from the Other then is paradoxically also about learning in relation to ourselves. What is beyond in the Other also exists within us. The subject is beyond and to a degree created by the Other’s signifiers, it is in alliance with the Other. Facing the unknowable, is facing the unknowable dimensions in ourselves. How is it possible to develop conditions, in the classroom facilitating listening and the tacit dimensions of learning described above?
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