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Britzman writes about the pedagogical value of psychoanalysis. Britzman highlights her own experience with psychoanalysis in educational settings, and uses her own personal anecdote in three acts. What underlying roles take place between student and teacher? “Kristeva’s (2010) view is that psychoanalysis – and I would add education – is a treatment for thought and desire. Both are word clinics, places to make up the mind.”  (129). With this proposition in mind, how can one use Britzman’s comparison of education with psychoanalysis in their pedagogical practice?

“the captivating term ‘autobiographical impulse’ to discuss desire for our storied lives with the pressing question, what holds us back from saying more.”“an intimate conflict between the desire to make one’s world meaningful when speaking to others and the schooled prohibition on worded lives where we are ‘taught in educational systems how to cover our narrative tracks and even be ashamed of them’”“The existential dilemma is that words signify more than we mean and can be used to invoke the breakdown of our meaning.” -focus of psychoanalysis obviously“He argued that words are found in othe

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?

"For the literary critic M. Bakhtin, lateness is a feature of language. He argued that words are found in other people’s mouths, borrowed, tattered by use, yet they can feel anonymous. ‘Language’, Bakhtin (1981) wrote, ‘is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker’s intentions; it is populated – overpopulated – with the intentions of others’ (341–2).