Learning difficulty and other's idealized knowledge

Abstract

This article discusses, from the psychoanalytic approach of Freud and Lacan, the relevant problem of learning dif ficulties when they come in symptomatic sense. It argues that on one hand learning is sustained on the assumption that the Other knows, but on the other hand we can verify within the cases of learning difficulties vicissitudes that call into question the relationship between subject and knowledge and that guide us to another dimension of this problematic status of knowledge in the Other. In this field, we can only verify one Other who does not know or can also emerge an Other whose knowledge is excessively idealized? In this sense, this article discusses the role of the Ideal in learning disabilities.