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What does a teacher want?

From the evocative and controversial question of Freud, What does a woman want?, we discuss the gender, the motherhood, the feminization of teaching history and culture and the masculine simulacrum of the profession. Could it be the triad motherwoman-pedagogy? To answer, we seek equivalence point and contract between psychoanaliys and gender theories, as well as we differentiate the concepts of female, female sexuality and femininity. The latter is a common condition for women and men. Then, we question the supposed Freudian misogyny to explore the notion of phallus. To understand it, in the narrative of the teachers, the displacement of the female condition as originary and inventive.

Psychoanalysis; Femininity; Gender; Teacher


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