Oh, I enjoyed this one. I am going to be using the phrase "autobiographical impulse", the desire to be authentic with words, to author ourselves using words that will always excess meaning. Britzman learns of her own entrapments and impulses in this narration. The desire to "interfere" with the other, in this case, how a student attends Britzman's lecture hall, forces her to become an analyst to her student during her office hours, because she is held by her own interruptions. In a pedagogical scene, what is being played out? And who is not a hypochondriac when it comes to psychoanalysis?I love these quotes: "He wanted me to know how much he is feeling affected by the course and by me. And I wanted him to know that he affected me. I think the meeting did that work and, if so, we could forget it as a piece of successful history." (129)
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