Learning and Bildung in the Work of Heydorn, Pichon-Rivière and Bleger – Connections Between Health, Critical Consciousness and Social Change.

HERAS, ANA INÉS

Survival through Bildung: On the topicality of Heinz-Joachim Heydorn?s philosophy of education

Verlag Barbara Budrich

Lugar: Frankfurt; Año: 2024; p. 97 - 114

In this piece I discuss my interpretation of Heydorn’s text—Survival Through Bildung – Outline of a prospect (1974/2024, p. 15-34 in this anthology)—in relation to the work of Enrique Pichon-Rivière (1907–1977) and José Bleger (1922–1972). These two Argentinian authors worked in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, medicine and social psychology, and yet, they are well known for traversing disciplinary boundaries, to the point that they have become unquestionable references in other fields (Quiroga, 1986). In the field of education, for example, they are regarded as extremely original thinkers for their contribution to considering learning at the centre of human healthy processes and for developing a methodology to foster collective processes of knowledge generation through which individuals or groups can develop a self-reflective, critical perspective that may allow them to dynamically transform themselves and their communities towards non-hierarchical, non-authoritarian and non-exploitative relationships (Bleger, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967; Pichon-Rivière, 1956/2008, 1969a, 1995).