Hysteric discourse and ethics in teaching

How do teachers relate to the "conflicts" that exist between scientific research findings and school institutional demands? Starting with a "provocative" statement by a primary school teacher, we interviewed eleven teachers at the same school level and asked them to express their opinions on this statement. Based on Brown's rereading of the four discourses by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, we used these constructs to analyze the interviews. We focused in particular on the different types of hysterical discourses that emerged, in order to understand whether the interpretation of these discourses could be a useful perspective to open up new reflections on how to investigate teachers’ choice processes to decide which kind of teaching activities they should offer in the school.