PSYCHOANALYSIS AND EDUCATION

 Many movements and activities have arisen as a result of psychoanalysis, providing a drive to new schooling. It has altered the way education is seen and intended. Education is no longer regarded as a constraint to be overcome by external regulatory mechanisms such as punishment and incentives.

The goal of education is to develop the full person, including intellect and emotions, for socially beneficial objectives. Psychoanalysis has emphasized psychological motivations such as love, instinctual usage, permissiveness and forbearance, and the child's own choice or desire. It has shed light on and explained the differences in the absorption of diverse disciplines among different youngsters. This suggests that some deficits, among other things, may be caused by emotional inhibition. Psychoanalysis has explained a child's resistance to learning as a result of unfavourable environmental conditions, unsympathetic and critical teachers and parents, a lack of preparation, and emotional blocking caused by anxiety and aggression in the form of phobias or inharmonious parent-child or intra-parental relationships.


Thus, psychoanalysis emphasizes the significance of a suitable setting for children's education. The atmosphere in school and at home should be designed to lower the likelihood of repression and raise the likelihood of sublimation. It should allow for spontaneous and creative actions as well as all sublimations. Psychoanalysis has emphasized the importance of play in children's education. The numerous curricular and co-curricular activities in the school should be determined by play as well as other natural interests of children. Because of this emphasis on play, play therapy and play-way have emerged as essential strategies in the treatment of academic and emotional difficulties. 

It is impossible to deny that psychoanalysis has fueled movements such as "child guidance," "mental hygiene," "paido-centrism," and "child independence." The latter popularised notions like 'free discipline.'

Other contributions of psychoanalysis to education include the need to honouring the child's individuality at an early age, examining the child's early years, analysing behavioural norms from a fresh perspective, recognising the potency of the sex impulse, and sex education. However, one of the most significant contributions has been the knowledge of maladjustments in children's behaviour and delinquencies in adolescence that psychoanalysis has provided. Emotional conflicts caused by poor inter-personal relationships within the family and repression of children's unconscious needs and demands or reality have been highlighted as important causes, without underestimating the importance of inadequate environmental conditions such as broken homes, poor economic situations, bad neighbourhoods, inadequate school programmes, a lack of proper recreational facilities, and others.

To summarise, much of what is progressive in New Education can be traced back to the impact of psychoanalysis.





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