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Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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The Superego in Education

The teacher, as a subject, cannot seek good for all because they cannot know the good that exist beyond even their own pleasure. Even the very notion of good in psychoanalytic terms might be inflected with much darker and more taboo desires due to the nature of the unconscious. The superego is the sadistic source of our moral law. So Kopjek describes it as a malign, noxious neighbour who will spare us no cruelty in the accrual of its own pleasure. We might jump to the figure of Osted, an omnipresent gaze that judges the supposed quality of the school and the teachers within. But the gaze of this body remains broadly outside of

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