Transfer in vednost na univerzi skozi teoretsko psihoanalizo : doktorska disertacija

slovenian

doktorska dela

2021

Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za družbene vede
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The doctoral thesis titled Transference and knowledge at the University through theoretical psychoanalysis addresses the discourse of the University through the psychoanalytic concept of transference that establishes assumpted meaning and value of knowledge. The dissertation describes the relation of power among actors bonded by social relation on the field of University discourse - a form of social bond that constructs hierarchy dependent on the value of some actor's knowledge, or its use. Through such socially constructed, encouraged and framed assumptions on knowledge, its meaning, and its value is set. The doctoral thesis aims to research the role of transference in social relations, to address the relation between truth and real, introduce changes in the University's position regarding social relations that consequently establish social reality, objectivity, and meaning. All through the University's role of educational institution that transfers, authorizes, and sells knowledge. In psychoanalysis, the concept of the body is connected to transference and is on the Imaginary level established as an intermediate place that connects the knowledge and University. The body is therefore presented as a base for the embodiment of knowledge, or the assumption of its existence. This basis is assigned with a role and consequently wins symbolic surplus value. The latter is connected to the psychoanalytic concept of enjoyment. The method used in the dissertation is predominantly conceptual analysis of psychoanalytical theory, Althusserian marxism, and Foucauldian political science. For further explanation case studies and discursive analysis of key documents (Magna Charta Universitatum and Bologna declaration) that represent the role of educational institutions regarding knowledge, are added. Key findings of dissertations are the body's use as a mold for knowledge and its consequential crucial role with the establishment of transference. This is exactly the moment that allows the imaginary understanding of knowledge in a way that puts it in a position of objectivity in the discourse of the University.

11.05.2023