Lessons of love: psychoanalysis and teacher-student love

Educational Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 79-96

  Cho, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 21244460483     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2005.0006a.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. For another analysis of teacher-student sex and the discourse of sexual harassment, see Benjamin Baez, "Sex Harassment in Schools: The Politics of Law, Power, Sexuality, and Speech," Educational Theory 51, no. 1 (2001): 45-62. I will say more on the position Baez takes subsequently in my discussion of what I call the "erotic position."
2. Donna Huffaker, "Teacher Pleads Not Guilty in Sex Case; Judge Rejects Bid to Lower Granda Hills High Instructor's Bail," Daily News of Los Angeles, March 17, 1999.
3. Lisa Weiss and Donna Huffaker, "Teacher Held as Suspect in Teen Sex Case," Daily News of Los Angeles, March 15, 1999.
4. Alexander Payne, Election (Los Angeles: Paramount, 1999), film.
5. For another analysis of love as distinct from sexuality, see Anna Kornbluh, "For the Love of Money," Historical Materialism 10, no. 4 (2002): 155-171.
6. Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, trans. Bruce Fink (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988).
7. Ibid., 45.
8. Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W.W. Norton, 1981), 268;
9. and Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, 6.
10. Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, 145.
11. Alain Badiou, "What Is Love?" Umbr(a) 1 (1996): 49.
12. Alain Badiou, "On Love" (seminar presented at the University of California, Los Angeles, May 2004).
13. Bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (New York: Routledge, 1994), 199.
14. Ibid., 194.
15. Bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (New York: Routledge, 2003), 144.
16. Jane Gallop, Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).
17. For an analysis of the Mary Kay Letourneau case, see Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (London: Verso, 1999), chap. 6.
18. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton, 1961).
19. Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, trans. Dennis Porter (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992), 177.
20. Among the many care theorists, I take Nel Noddings and Angela Valenzuela as representative of caring pedagogy. See Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminist Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984);
21. and Angela Valenzuela, Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999).
22. Valenzuela, Subtractive Schooling, 21, emphasis added.
23. Ibid., 23, emphasis in original; 61; and 21, emphasis in original.
24. Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (New York: W.W. Norton, 1959), 92.
25. Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, Rushmore (Los Angeles: Touchstone, 1998), film.
26. Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII, 52.
27. For more on Lacan and das Ding in relation to the neighbor, see Kenneth Reinhard, "Freud, My Neighbor," American Imago 54, no. 2 (1997): 165-195;
28. and Kenneth Reinhard, "Kant with Sade, Lacan with Levinas," Modern Language Notes 110 (1995): 785-808.
29. Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII, 139.
30. Richard Linklater, School of Rock (Los Angeles: Paramount, 2003), film.
31. Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book III: The Psychoses 1955-1956, trans. Russell Grigg (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 143-157.
32. This phrase is borrowed from Slavoj Žižek, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (New York: Verso, 2002), 22.
33. See, for example, California State Board of Education, "Message from the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction" (Sacramento: California State Education Association, 2001).
34. Slavoj Žižek, "Class Struggle or Postmodernism? Yes, Please!" in Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, ed. Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek (New York: Verso, 2000), 100, emphasis in original.
35. Badiou, "What Is Love?" 39, emphasis in original.
36. Alain Badiou, "The Scene of Two," lacanian ink 21 (Spring-Summer 2003): 55.
37. Badiou, "What Is Love?" 49.
38. Paulo Freire, Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1998), 22, emphasis in original.
39. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum, 1970), 72.
40. Freire, Teachers as Cultural Workers, 3.