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It is the argument of this chapter that existing psychological models of humans, including instinctivism and behaviorism are misleading in their assumptions about what constitutes the human; nevertheless notions borrowed from these models continue to underwrite the curriculum. Even Freudian metapsychology gives rise to aporias precisely because Freud does not disturb the abstraction called "man." Rather, there is an attempt to reconcile subterranean processes with the preconceived idea of man. What might lead us to a more accurate picture? First, we have to recognize that there is an inherent incompleteness in the being of the human. We cannot experience ourselves other than in relation to someone else. It is only in relation to the Other that we are called-into-being. And, second, the fact that every human being is at the same time physically distinct and yet fundamentally related to the Other must be consciously acknowledged and pedagogically realized. A psychic insurgency is needed to move from abstracta to inter-experiential ways of knowing and being.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61106-8_6

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