ABSTRACT
Blanchard-Laville, coming from a Bionian perspective, emphasises the importance of understanding of “the psychic subsoil in which a subject’s relation to knowledge takes root”. Blanchard-Laville emphasises that teachers should interrogate their professional practice and personal history, and how it could get muddled with those of pupils, in particular by engaging in the clinical analysis of professional practices. Blanchard-Laville, in her work has theorised the constitution by the teacher of what she considers to be a group psychic envelope necessary for the creation of psychic spaces in teaching. In the teaching space, a scenario is played out between teacher and pupil exchanging muddled requests and defensive anxiety. The headmaster accompanied Zohar, with his mother, and introduced us briefly prior to the new pupil settling in. Zohar might have communicated to the author some aspects of fear, maybe of failure and unacceptability, as well as messiness in relation to the situation he found himself in.
