The Jouissance of Teaching
摘要
Beginning with an account of the horrors of modern teaching, this final chapter offers the possibility of remaining as a classroom teacher that finds enjoyment beyond the signifier of lack and sadomasochism raised in prior chapters. A thorough examination of Lacan’s concept of jouissance is given that leads into alternative modes of enjoyment. One mode is the tragic, drawing on Nietzche, Malabou and others, posing the subject of the teacher as one who has accepted the end of education. This figure is further explored through the example of Bartleby and beyond. The chapter moves from tragedy to alienation via the work of Brecht and Lacan’s founding of a new psychoanalytic school, giving further examples of Lacan’s own modes of pedagogy. The finals sections of the chapter raise the enjoyment of speech as lalangue or ‘blahblahblah’, found in Joyce and the hysterical subject.