Avatars of the Principle of Pleasure and the Principle of Reality in Education

 

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Autor: Morales Barrera, Mónica
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2018
Descripción:Sigmund Freud in his Autobiographical Presentation (1925) explicitly warns that he did not write anything about education; however, he says that the discoveries achieved in psychoanalysis in the journey through the exploration of the unconscious have interested other disciplines including pedagogy. In the few articles in which Freud alludes to this topic, he speaks of education in terms of dreams and hopes; he generally conceives education as a kind of prophylaxis of neuroses and perversions; nevertheless, psychoanalysis would act a posteriori at a therapeutic level. Only in one of his article Formulations on the Two Principles of Psychic Accomplishment (1911) –principle of displeasure and pleasure and principle of reality– Freud assigns education a specific function; in his own words: “Education can be described, without hesitation, as the incitement to overcome the pleasure principle and replace it with the principle of reality” (1989a, p. 228). This brief thesis contains the essence of the humanizing power of education that enables the subject to enter the circuit of culture by putting a stop to the self-destructive impulses promoted by the pleasure principle. Analyzing this thesis is the purpose of this paper.
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/11325
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ensayospedagogicos/article/view/11325
Palabra clave:psicoanálisis
Freud
Educación
principio de placer
principio de realidad
psychoanalysis
Education
principle of pleasure
principle of reality