Psychoanalysis of educational thinking. The example of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827)

Journal/Book: Psyche Z Psychoanal Anwend. 1998; 52: Rotebuhlstrasse 77, D-7004 9 Stuttgart 1, Germany. Klett-Cotta Verlag. 236-256.

Abstract: Siegfried Bernfeld upheld the view that a history of educational thinking could only take the form of a satire. Katharina Rutschky contends that the history of education is essentially a history of oppression, of ''Black Pedagogy''. Kraft takes a different stance, suggesting that the history of educational methods might be clarified and divested of bias and demonization tendencies by drawing on the instruments provided by psychoanalysis and training the gaze on the early feelings establishing educational motives and underlying educational blueprints. As the author shows in connection with Pestalozzi, this may be one way of determining how the latent text of the respective theory responds to the latent text of the individual biography and what we can glean from this for our understandig of the manifest content of theory and biography alike.

Note: Article Kraft V, Adolfpl 9, D-24105 Kiel, GERMANY

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