To Deal or Not to Deal with Uncertainty
NW 21 Education and Psychoanalysis
ECER theme is ‘Education in an Age of Uncertainty: memory and hope for the future’. Since Freud, ‘Uncertainty’, ‘Memory’, ‘Hope’ and ‘Future’ are concepts explored in many directions. These questions need to be revisited today within the field of education. Which uncertainty are we talking about when we refer to psychoanalysis? Does it relate only to the historical social context of the time and how does it echoes an uncertainty based in the Interplay of outer experience and inner world? Uncertainties appear in all pedagogical institutions, which cannot be understood without reference to the unconscious movements at stake.
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