{"product_id":"the-very-thought-of-education-deborah-p-britzman-9781438426457","title":"The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2009 Gary A. Olson Award presented by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJAC - a journal of rhetoric, culture, and politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who has ever been to school, the very thought of education recalls an emotional world denounced. What happens then if we try to understand the emotional scenery of education? Author Deborah P. Britzman proposes that the psychoanalysis of love and hate in learning provides creative commentary on our contemporary educational controversies. Drawing upon novels, art, psychoanalytic theory, clinical material, and philosophical debates on human nature, Britzman presents a psychoanalytic education of uncertainty. She focuses on key encounters: thinking, development, reading, psychology, transference, countertransference, and learning a profession. From the collapse of contemporary pedagogical themes to the work of reparation, Britzman explores the fantasies of education for the purpose of returning ideas of grace, hope, humor, and humility to the impossible professions (education, government, and medicine).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah P. Britzman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438426453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438426457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.37h x 6.33w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009","brand":"Deborah P. Britzman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065577550079,"sku":"9781438426457","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ce358fd-d791-4faf-a3de-283b6c702376.jpg?v=1768675895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-very-thought-of-education-deborah-p-britzman-9781438426457","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}