“Aggression and the Telos of Learning: A Psychoanalytic Study of Significant Language Learning.”


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2015

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“Aggression and the Telos of Learning: A Psychoanalytic Study of Significant Language Learning” focuses on descriptions provided in Richard Rodriguez’ Hunger of Memory, Alice Pitt’s “Language on Loan”, and Alice Kaplan’s French Lessons. This article analysis the psycho-emotional situation of significant language learning for both: child and adolescent monolingual migrants, and host-foreign language students. This work pays close attention to the manner in which acquiring a new language unveils learners’ affect and history of learning. It looks into language acquisition in relation to our human nature, universal needs and responses to host-foreign language learning. Drives and defenses behind the embodiment of a new language are discussed through questions of desire, identifications and need for individuation. Also central to this paper is the exploration of how significant learning, as a cognitive-emotional experience, is tied to differing forms of aggression.

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http://www.language-and-psychoanalysis.com/article/view/1569

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“Aggression and the Telos of Learning: A Psychoanalytic Study of Significant Language Learning.”

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Carra-Salsberg, Fernanda

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Journal of Language and Psychoanalysis

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Volume 4, No 2

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34-49

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