Link added March 22, 1999. Link checked January 2000. To the extent that teaching is guided learning it is helping. In Socrates to Psychoanalysis to Teaching we follow that line of reasoning through to teaching. Academic discourse is the highest form of teaching, for in discourse we exchange ideas, fitting them into a context of rational argument and non-rational creative interplay of our wishes and phantasies that sparks the creative production of new knowledge.
Creativity comes from play, and from the free operation of the rational, the wish, and the phantasy.
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