About the transmission of knowledge: psychoanalytical punctuations

  • Leandro de Lajonquière niversidad de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis, Francia/Universidad de São Paulo, Brasil
  • Pablo Llanque Nieto Universidad de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis, Francia

Keywords:

educational transmission, psychoanalysis, education, to know, knowledge

Abstract

The dialog between psychoanalysis and education started many years ago with Sigmund Freud when he affirms that in both fields there is a share of impossibility. Facing this impossibility, we reflect upon what is at stake in the relationship between teacher and student during the  transmission of school knowledge in the educational act. “To know” and knowledge make up surfaces of a band of Moebius. According to psychoanalysis, in addition to the knowledge, an unknown knowledge is transmitted that concerns the desire. The desire, according to Lacan, is
always desire of the Other and it has to do with the unconscious. The desire pierces the knowledge, leaving it incomplete, and inscribes in its bosom an eternal fault that pushes us to the search for that missing knowledge and enrolls us in a particular relationship with education. Between the teacher and the student there is a transferential bond, which base is the love for knowledge and therefore is an asymmetrical relationship between the two. In addition to the transmission of their knowledge, the teacher brings into play knowledge about their relationship with desire, the symbolic lack and castration marks. Thus, the testimony that the teacher gives of their desire introduces the possibility for the student to conquer a place of enunciation in an ongoing story

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Author Biographies

Leandro de Lajonquière, niversidad de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis, Francia/Universidad de São Paulo, Brasil

Profesor catedrático en las universidades de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis (Francia) y de São Paulo (Brasil). Tesis de pos-doctorado en las universidades de Paris 8 (en el área de psicología) y de São Paulo (en el
área de filosofía de la educación). Doctorado en Educación por la Universidad de Estadual de Campinas (Brasil). Psicólogo y Licenciado en Ciencias de la educación por la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina)

Pablo Llanque Nieto, Universidad de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis, Francia

Alumno de doctorado en Ciencias de la educación en la Universidad de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis (Francia). Magister en Ciencias de la educación y en Psicoanálisis en la Universidad de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis (Francia). Licenciado en Psicología por la Universida “Mayor de San Andrés” (Bolivia).

Published

2022-06-10