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- ISSN: 0034-527X
- E-ISSN: 1943-2348
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Resistance, Loss, and Love in Learning to Read: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
- Source: Research in the Teaching of English, Volume 40, Issue 3, Feb 2006, p. 272 - 309
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- 01 Feb 2006
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.
© 2006 by the National Council of Teachers of English