Educational Studies in the Light of the Feminine

1Towards Developmental Psychodynamics

1.1. Spatio-temporal points of reference and development

The challenge of this first chapter is to rethink the coordinates of time and space in life, work, training and study. To promote individual and collective development, it is sometimes necessary to open the black boxes, to free ourselves from frameworks and house arrests; we are thinking in particular about the sharing of power and knowledge between disciplinary academic fields that hampers inventiveness. Here, philosophical thinking and the analysis of sociotechnical processes become intertwined, and ethical considerations seek to be articulated through the analysis of uses and tools. We wish to encourage a fresh perspective on development, based on collective intelligence.

1.1.1. Sense of normativity

1.1.1.1. Normativity: orientation of behavior

“From his years as a pacifist Canguilhem had thus retained not a love of revolt or opposition, but the very essence of their deep causality: a true spirit of resistance, grounded in the effectiveness of prohibition and authority. Every man ought, in his view, to be a rebel, but every rebellion ought to aim at a creation of an order higher than that of subjective liberty: an order of reason and conceptuality.” (Roudinesco 2010, p. 25)

The notion of normativity is borrowed from the physician and philosopher Georges Canguilhem. First of all, it is a reference in terms of life projects and committed life, human development in its vital and ...