Deborah P. Britzman
Deborah P. Britzman is Distinguished Professor of Research at York University, Toronto and a practising psychoanalyst.
Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning
This book argues for the reconsideration by education of the implications of psychoanalytic ideas on love and hate for the design of programmes for learning and pedagogy. Britzman sets in tension... (more)
After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning
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... (more)
The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions
A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens. For anyone who has ever been to school, the very thought of education recalls an emotional world denounced. What... (more)
Freud and Education
he concept of education - its dangers and promises and its illusions and revelations - threads throughout Sigmund Freud's body of work. This introductory volume by psychoanalytic authority, Deborah... (more)
A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom: On the Human Condition in Education
A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom provides rich descriptions of the surprising ways individuals handle matters of love and hate when dealing with reading and writing in the classroom. With wit and... (more)
Melanie Klein: Early Analysis Play and the Question of Freedom
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations... (more)
A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom: On the Human Condition in Education
Offers a new view of pedagogical practices to psychoanalysts interested in pedagogy. A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom provides rich descriptions of the surprising ways individuals handle matters of... (more)