Abstract

LEMOS, Maria Teresa Guimarães de. Desejo de educar?. ETD [online]. 2007, vol.08, suppl., pp.80-89. ISSN 1676-2592.

It is possible to recognize nowadays the circulation of a discourse that aims at denouncing new impasses in education. Most commonly mentioned are the fall of the teacher’s symbolic authority and the need to redefine the positions educator-student (acting on the later an identification with user’s and consumer’s rights). The analysis presented here, which is not concerned with establishing either the truth or the falsehood of those utterances, but with their consequences, argues that such discourse should be understood as a “complaint” or as a “demand” (in the Lacanian sense of the term). The paper aims at analysing such as a lack/impossible inhabiting educational practice, by taking at first the Freudian conception of education and, secondly, the logical positiveness of those terms in Lacan.

Keywords : Discourse; Demand; Desire; Education; Lack; Impossible.

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