After-Education

<p><b>Uses psychoanalytic theories of learning to explore contemporary issues in education.</b></p><p>In After-Education Deborah P. Britzman raises the startling question What is education that it should give us such trouble? She explores a series of historic and contemporary psychoanalytic arguments over the nature of reality and fantasy for thinking through the force and history of education. Drawing from the theories of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein she analyzes experiences of difficult knowledge pedagogy group psychology theory and questions of loneliness in learning education. Throughout the book education appears and is transformed in its various guises: as a nervous condition as social relation as authority as psychological knowledge as quality of psychical reality as fact of natality as the thing between teachers and students as an institution and as a play between reality and fantasy.</p>