Teaching: knowlegde and inner processes relationship

Abstract

This article presents some thoughts about teaching based on the psychoanalitic theory. It is divided in two parts. First, it develops the idea that teaching is a imaginary and simbolic space. That determines the structure of the relationships occuring within it. The categories "desire ", "demand", "transference" "identification" are considered as central in the relationship student-teacher. In the second part, the author discusses the diference between "authority " and "authoritativeness" with the purpose of explaining the three branches of the educational interaction related to the notion of knowledgement; the teacher's identification with knowledgement; the "laissez-faire" in school; and sliding as a substitute for knowledgement.