What is it about?
This paper uses Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut, to introduce and explain the key psychoanalytic ideas of fantasy (seeing reality in seductively simple terms) and disavowal (simultaneously acknowledging and denying something). The paper then goes on to draw on these ideas to analyse and critique the UK government's 2016 white paper, educational excellence everywhere.
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Why is it important?
The relevance of psychoanalytic ideas is increasingly being recognised beyond the clinic; this paper demonstrates how key psychoanalytic ideas can be put to work in the service of critical policy analysis.
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This paper was engaging and rewarding to write as it allowed me to bring film, psychoanalysis and policy studies into a productive conversation. Hopefully, it will be thought provoking for you as the reader.
Prof Matthew Clarke
York Saint John University
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This page is a summary of: Eyes wide shut: the fantasies and disavowals of education policy, Journal of Education Policy, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2018.1544665.
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