Feeling alienated

Matthew Clarke

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-82259-9_11

Feeling alienated

Matthew Clarke^* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

In order to make sense of people’s experiences and the stories they tell, we need a theorisation of the subject. This needs to account for both the psychic and the social dimensions of our being, as well as offer scope for thinking about how these two dimensions are entangled and interact in complex and complicated ways to simultaneously constitute and alienate us as subjects. In this chapter, I explore the complex conceptual terrain and complicated history of alienation, including its mutual implication of self and other, and its entanglements with thought and emotion. I go on to consider how the organisation of education and schooling today work to inhibit us from recognizing and creating the sort of vibrant correspondences between individuals, and between them and the world.I explore how this force discourages us from recognizing the regenerative capacities of solitude, that are essential to personal and collective thriving, instead leaving us with a frustrated feeling of being clamped in our own private traps and alienated from ourselves, our work, our worlds and each other.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Teachers' Emotional Experiences
Subtitle of host publication	Towards a New Emotional Discourse
Editors	Saul Karnovsky, Nick Kelly
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	11
Pages	217-233
Number of pages	17
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-82259-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-82258-2, 978-3-031-82261-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82259-9_11
Publication status	Published - 11 Mar 2025

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Critical Perspectives on Schooling, Teachers and Teaching
ISSN (Print)	2662-2785
ISSN (Electronic)	2662-2793

Keywords

alienation
psychoanalytic theory
neoliberalism
power relations

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Feeling alienated. / Clarke, Matthew (Corresponding Author).
Teachers' Emotional Experiences: Towards a New Emotional Discourse. ed. / Saul Karnovsky; Nick Kelly. 1. ed. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. p. 217-233 (Palgrave Critical Perspectives on Schooling, Teachers and Teaching).

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