The Lacanian Subject

Rendering Unconscious episode 253. You can support the podcast at our Patreon where we post exclusive content every week. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl We also have a Substack! https://vanessa23carl.substack.com Your support is greatly appreciated! Dr. Nick Stock is an independent researcher, currently exploring Lacanian psychoanalysis as an approach to unravelling the desires of teachers. He has other interests in poststructuralist philosophy and radical political theory. He holds a doctorate in Philosophy of Education from the University of Birmingham and is also an English teacher in an inner-city Sixth Form College. https://ironisteducator.wordpress.com He tweets @89stock https://twitter.com/89stock For more of his work, see his recent publication in Pedagogy, Culture and Society ‘The Weird, Eerie, Exit Pedagogy of Mark Fisher‘ and his forthcoming publication in British Psychoanalytic Council magazine New Associations ‘My Teaching. Lacanian Reflections from the Classroom’. http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru253-nicholas-stock-does-the-teacher-enjoy-thinking-through-educational-enjoyment-with-lacan/ Philosophical questions about teachers often ask what teachers are for, or less interestingly, how they can improve. But amidst teacher recruitment shortfall, waves of teacher strikes, a disillusioned workforce, and a rising sense of educational authoritarianism, we might wonder whether the teacher can enjoy “being” a teacher. Did they ever, and what sorts of enjoyment are to be found? Drawing on Lacanian theory, this talk will explore the structure of education that teachers find themselves amidst, consider the teacher as a subject in this structure, and pose questions concerning educational enjoyment, or jouissance. Talk given at UCL for PESGB on 07/06/23 https://soundcloud.com/user-452416970/does-the-teacher-enjoy-thinking-through-educational-enjoyment-with-lacan Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23 Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is “The subject's inner experience” from the album "Indulgence not Abstinence" by Vanessa Sinclair & Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Music also available to stream via Spotify & other streaming platforms. Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Dr. Nick Stock