Ser ou não ser? O estudante de geografia e suas escolhas profissionais à luz da psicanálise

Abstract

The present work aims at investigating the meanings that the new students and those who finish the course of geography produce about the act of teaching, trying to identify the taboos related to the teaching profession in these students' discourses, as well as showing how these different discourses are articulated and contribute to the production of subjective qualities about the theaching profession which are concerned directly or indirectly to their professional choices. In order to collect information, we used half-structured interviews, in which we incentivated the report of the practices of learning of the students, their professional perspectives, the narration of the reasons why they chose the courses and the institutions, and also the perception about the the teaching profession. We used some concepts of Psychoanalysis as the theoretical basis to the analysis of the interviews and of the concept of taboo according to Freud and Adorno. The speech of those who were interviewed show the different ways (happy of not) which lead people to become teachers. The results show that it is necessary to have a better reflection about the teacher's image in the graduation courses, aiming at desconstructing the taboos which affect the career