ABSTRACT
This article proposes to construct a possible spectrum that ties the territories of health and education as it regards the malaise that takes over teachers nowadays. It supposes that this psychic suffering in teachers is not being deep or sufficiently clarified, considering that it is well-known. Teachers report they are increasingly depressed, stressed, exhausted, distressed, overmedicated, suffering of panic and producing dropouts. Based on the theoretical frame of psychoanalysis, but with no conceptual Hermeticism, this essay tries to enter into details and reveals the forces of this malaise: the inhibition that occurs in teachers’ concerning of testing themselves, their reversed moral courage and the retreat of their desire. After this study, it becomes possible to understand not only what teachers narrate about their lives and practices, but also how the genealogical and narcissistic aspects, as well as the lack of knowledge, are contributing to keep a “moral depression zone”, from where some of these professionals produce the worst for themselves. Therefore, what to do? Through the “intervention research of clinical guidance”, the methodology employed in this research, we intend to give educational trainers and managers some devices to make it possible for teachers to speak. Releasing their words, they could unlock their symptoms and politicize their inner responsibility.
Keywords:
teaching malaise; psychic suffering; basic education; psychoanalysis