Education of educators: psychoanalytical assumption or reichian utopia?

Abstract

More than generally accepted, Reich´s suppositions seem to be based on Freudian propositions, especially those which belong to his first period. Some authors emphasize the clinical proximity concerning this "psychoanalytical period" characteristic of the first reichian elaborations overlooking other possible relations in regard to the debate in matter. They do so based on different motives, the most common being the fact that Reich had been officially linked to the International Psychoanalytical Association. For this very reason, this paper aims at ransoming some Freudian reflections concerning education, pointing out the "education of educators" - be it as a psychanalytical assumption founded on Freud´s educational texts, or as a typically reichian utopia, whose conviction in the possibility of neurosis prophylaxy would reach the educational field. This is presented as one of the points in common between Freud and Reich´s educational discourses, hence being capable of propitiating the latter the unfolding of assumptions that belong to the work of the first.