Freire and Lacan

Critical pedagogy as a radical methodology of the subject

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ID12425154
AuthorsAlex J Armonda (0009-0006-0898-7075, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume44
Issue2
Pages121-146
Publication date2021-11-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Education Pedagogy & Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1071-4413 • E-ISSN: 1556-3022
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10714413.2021.2007206
OpenAlexW3215334934
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited19

Turning to key texts of Paulo Freire and Jacques Lacan, this paper argues that the experience organized in critical pedagogy can be rearticulated on the basis of a structural-practical connection to psychoanalysis. I pay specific attention to the methodical parallels that develop between the accounts of the psychoanalytic and pedagogical encounters in Lacan and Freire, arguing that critical pedagogy can be presented in a way that embraces the Lacanian theories of subjectivity and the unconscious, while affirming its political and emancipatory commitments. This theoretical analysis unfolds in two parts. First, I develop an account of Lacan that can militate for the critical pedagogical intervention, offering a grammar for elaborating upon Freire’s claim that critical pedagogy be understood as kind of psychoanalysis. Bringing into focus a more practically oriented Lacan, I demonstrate how his work offers a rationality for organizing an intervention in the terrain of subjectivity. Second, I apply this reading of Lacan to the pedagogical experience defined by Freire in an effort to articulate in a new key the problems and possibilities structuring his intervention, linking the question of educational praxis to traumatic/unconscious knowledge as the site of operation for facilitating the political subjectivation of students

Critical pedagogy · Deconstruction (building · Epistemology · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Politics · Praxis · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Rationality · Reading (process · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Psychology

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