Session Information
29 SES 13 A, Symposium: Art in Education
Symposium
Contribution
Art is often used within pedagogy to inspire students in their creative endeavors. I will discuss the consequences of Lacanian theory for the understanding of the relationship between art and creative writing in the classroom. Freud discussed art in relation to sublimation where the original object of the drive (the object causing frustration) is displaced towards another object (the object of art). In Lacans concept of sublimation the object of the drive is not exchanged for another object, the nature of the object changes. It takes on the position of the unknowable ‘Thing’. Zizek discussed art as the Thing and the Absolute. Another way to make the same point would be to emphasize how in today’s art the gap separating sacred sublime beauty from the excremental space of trash (leftover) is gradually narrowing. Trash is made to fill in the sacred place of the `thing´ (Zizek 2000 pp 25-26). Sch¬leiermacher claimed that pedagogy is an art form. It takes shape within teacher–student interaction, or rather within a space emerging from this interaction. I will call it ‘an other’ space and use this term interchangeably with the unconscious as the location for this interaction in creative writing.
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