TEACHER TRAINING, EDUCATION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: AN OVERVIEW

This text introduces reflections on teacher training, education and psychoanalysis contained in this dossier. It starts from the current scenario, extremely unfavorable to educational initiatives; it also shows who the pioneers were, whose seminal works influence us today and reiterates the foundation of the impossible professions as defined by Freud. It then reveals four principles that guide the dossier: 1) a training that does not reduce education to methods and discourses; 2) the inclusion of the subject of the unconscious into the reality of educational experience; 3) an education beyond schooling, but a result of transmission; and 4. an education capable of accommodating the precarious states of existence. After presenting the articles, it poses the question, alongside Lacan, of how "people are taken by anguish when they think about what it is to educate", and then end up encouraging psychoanalysis focused on social work and the city.