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 three perspectives - studies of education, studies in psychoanalysis, and studies of ethics - in order to consider how social histories reside in the life-history of the subject.