Research in the Teaching of English Feb 2006

Resistance, Loss, and Love in Learning to Read: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Gail Boldt

Abstract

This conceptual essay employs psychoanalytic theory in exploring the difficulties the author’s son experienced in learning to read. Emphasizing the profoundly affective and subjective dimensions of one child’s movement toward and against literacy, the author considers the potential of psychoanalytic perspectives in helping teachers and researchers better understand and respond to children’s resistance to reading.

Journal
Research in the Teaching of English
Published
2006-02-01
DOI
10.58680/rte20065101
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Closed
Topics
affect and writing

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