Browsing by Author "Kruszelnicki, Wojciech"

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    Freudowskie i lacanowskie kierunki rewizji autorytetu nauczyciela
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2013) Kruszelnicki, Wojciech
    My paper develops the idea of the critique of traditional models of the teacher’s authority as posited by Lech Witkowski in his latest works. I want to show that the insights of psychoanalysis into man’s functioning in culture are of paramount importance for pedagogy, since they open up new possibilities of looking at the peculiarities of the educational relation. Turning to Freud and Lacan, I seek answers to the question concerning the ubiquity of a fixed model of the teacher as the Subject of Certainty and explore the ways of the psychoanalytical critique of what one could call “teachers’ typical pose of mastery”. I conclude with some propositions of what the task of critical pedagogy ought to be, given that the figure of the authoritative teacher impedes its emancipatory mission.
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    Pragnienie Realnego albo fantazmat Zewnętrza wśród nędzy językowo zdefiniowanego świata
    (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM w Poznaniu, 2011) Kruszelnicki, Wojciech
    In my article I reconstruct the Lacanian notion of the Symbolical and explain why language constitutes its most important domain. Following Kojève, I argue that language introduces to the human world an insurmountable negativity – the “deadness of the word” which substitutes the continuity of a world experienced in its immediate intensity with a symbolical representation and conceptualization. The order of the symbolical, identified with cultural order, is further on confronted with the order of the real which after Lacan, and especially after Žižek, I understand as a metaphor of an inaccessible, non-phenomenological experience lived beyond consciousness and culture, that is in the phantasmatic Outside. I trace various figures and intuitions of thus conceived “Outside” in thinkers such as Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille and I argue that at issue in their works might have been an intriguingly novel way of thinking about communication. In conclusion I tackle the question why the discussed path of contemporary French philosophy is worth elaboration, positing it all the while as a project of strictly utopian character.