Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults
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Abstract
challenges presented in our current historical context and the enterprise of psychoanalytic education. Britzman’s discourse is highly specialized and presents the reader who may not be familiar with both disciplines the challenge of learning a new vocabulary. As a psychoanalyst, I was introduced to the academic language of a person who is extremely well versed in educational theory with its attendant history, concepts, terminology and phraseology. Familiar psychoanalytic writings take on new meaning when seen through the hermeneutic lens of a different discipline, and this was particularly rewarding. Britzman’s book invites the reader to assume the analytic posture of listening without always knowing or understanding, and to discover blind and dumb spots within the reader’s own education. Through this experience, I found that simply reading the book provided me with an intimate experience of Britzman’s thesis – that education involves the anxiety of dependence, evokes hate and love, and is laden with various transferences to our life of both acquisitive knowledge and its frustration. Curiously, one powerful experience of reading Britzman’s book is that one may be drawn into an enactment with the text around one’s own lack, resistance, moments of slow reading, reconnecting through various reveries to the personal history and location of one’s educational life before, during, and after psychoanalytic training. This book will be of interest to those who think about pedagogical matters, teachers, and particularly candidates who are in the midst of revisiting old (and new) love and hate connected to the process of learning.