Power standard in schools and their effects on the subjects

Authors

  • Nádia Laguárdia de Lima Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG); Departamento de Psicologia
  • Alice Oliveira Rezende Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v18i1p34-52

Keywords:

school, power, subjects, contemporary symptoms, psychoanalysis

Abstract

Interviews with teachers from public schools showed a common discourse that there is a decline in the power and authority of schools and families, producing different symptoms at school. Based on Foucault's thought about power relations in schools and on psychoanalysis authors, we defend the hypothesis that there isn't a decline of power in schools today, but a new form of power, the normative one. Determined by the medical-scientific discourse, this power takes the subjects as objects of regulatory and corrective measures based on quantification and generalized classification of behaviors and deviations, which produce segregation.

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Published

2013-04-01

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Section

Dossier psychoanalysis and education (im) possible

How to Cite

Lima, N. L. de, & Rezende, A. O. (2013). Power standard in schools and their effects on the subjects. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 18(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v18i1p34-52