An invitation to write, to play, to be affected, to be permissive in taking note: all these gestures of freedom compose Novel Education. Britzman opens the crypt of research to and finds the perils and pleasures of narrating life in the human professions. It is at once an introduction to psychoanalytic theories of everyday education and a guide to perplexed learning. Each chapter considers the situation of pedagogy through the dream of education and analyzes learning through its emotional experiences and passions. New attention is given to aesthetic conflicts made from trying to know intersubjective life. Topics include studies of inhibition, sexuality, aggression and depression, the problems of sexual enlightenement, the uses of free association and the transference, and the play between creativity and anxiety.
The second edition includes a new opening note on the problems of experience and case writing for the human sciences. A concluding chapter, "Writing on the Mind" joins a theory of group psychology to new formulations on creativity for students, teachers, parents, analysts, and children. This thought-provoking book is essential reading for undergraduates and graduates students, those teaching and learning in professional education in the fields of counseling, social work, education, and psychotherapy and anyone involved in the learning lives of others. An invitation to write, to play, to be affected, to be permissive in our note taking: All these gestures of freedom compose the play of novel education.

Deborah P. Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus at York University, Toronto, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a working psychoanalyst in Toronto. Britzman is the author of 10 books, including Freud and Education (2011); Melanie Klein: Early Analysis, Play and the Question of Freedom (2016); A Psychoanlayst in the Classroom (2015); and Anticipating Education (2021). The first edition of Novel Education: Psychoanalytic Studies in Learning and Not Learning (2006) won the American Educational Studies Association Critic¿s Book Award.

Preface - Acknowledgments - Opening Note - Psychoanalytic Studies of Learning and Not Learning - Five Excursions into Free Association, or Just Take the A Train - A Note to "Identification with the Aggressor" - Poor Little Oedipus: On the Pleasures and Disappointments of Sexual Enlightenment - Melanie Klein, Little Richard, and the Psychoanalytic Question of Inhibition - Monsters in Literature - Notes on the Teacher's Illness - What is a Pedagogical Fact? Notes from the Clinical Knowledge Project - Writing on the Mind - Complete Bibliography - Index.