About the transmission of knowledge: psychoanalytical punctuations
Keywords:
educational transmission, psychoanalysis, education, to know, knowledgeAbstract
The dialog between psychoanalysis and education started many years ago with Sigmund Freud when he affirms that in both fields there is a share of impossibility. Facing this impossibility, we reflect upon what is at stake in the relationship between teacher and student during the transmission of school knowledge in the educational act. “To know” and knowledge make up surfaces of a band of Moebius. According to psychoanalysis, in addition to the knowledge, an unknown knowledge is transmitted that concerns the desire. The desire, according to Lacan, is
always desire of the Other and it has to do with the unconscious. The desire pierces the knowledge, leaving it incomplete, and inscribes in its bosom an eternal fault that pushes us to the search for that missing knowledge and enrolls us in a particular relationship with education. Between the teacher and the student there is a transferential bond, which base is the love for knowledge and therefore is an asymmetrical relationship between the two. In addition to the transmission of their knowledge, the teacher brings into play knowledge about their relationship with desire, the symbolic lack and castration marks. Thus, the testimony that the teacher gives of their desire introduces the possibility for the student to conquer a place of enunciation in an ongoing story