ALVES, Rafaela Brandão    CURADO, Bárbara Taveira Fleury. The Narcissism in University teaching. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2017, 17, 1, pp.259-276. ISSN 1808-4281.

The purpose of the current article is to discuss in a theoretical essay, one of the unspoken circulating the halls of academy: the narcissism that runs through university teaching. For this, the concept of narcissism in psychoanalysis will be worked drawing both, the structuring face as the other one, that points to the excess in the search for looks. It starts from the point of view, which the current socio-economic situation corroborates to the promotion of narcissism in all areas of human life, which would not be different in the teachers' work, since professors' recognition will be proportional of their Lattes curriculum. Thus, this essay seeks to question the effects of narcissism in the teacher-student relationship and the production of discomfort suffered by university professors. Finally, the article addresses the hidden face of hatred, underlying the face of love, as being one possibility that would enable the section in the mirrored teacher-student relationship, from what would occur the transmission not only of knowledge but of insistently disguised castration. That's what psychoanalysis points as essential when talking about transmition of knowledge.

: narcissism; teaching; university; ideal; castration.

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