The psychodynamics of the college classroom
Understanding the relational and emotional aspects of teaching. In a recent essay entitled “Are You My Mother?” Merve Emre, a frequent New Yorker contributor and a professor of creative writing and criticism at Wesleyan University, argues that it’s impossible to understand the dynamics of the contemporary college classroom without understanding the extent to which the psychoanalytic concepts of transference and countertransference are at play.
Source: insidehighered.com
