Teachers and the manifestation of children's sexuality at school

Abstract

This article aims to present the main points of the Conversations held with a group of teachers of early childhood education for the master's research entitled “Psychoanalysis and education: responses found by teachers in the face of the manifestations of children's sexuality at school” and discuss the possibilities of contribution of the psychoanalysis for education, pointing mainly to the answers that teachers find in the face of impasses related to children's sexuality. Initially, the teachers' statements were scored and selected. To substantiate, Sigmund Freud's literature was sought on infantile sexuality and the traumatic character that reverberates for both the child and the adult. In this sense, some contributions that psychoanalysis can give to education regarding the issue of sexuality were pointed out. The purpose was to shift the focus from the teachers 'malaise, to the possibility of mitigating the teachers' anxieties in dealing with the impasses of child sexuality. Thus, reflections from the Conversations, it was realized that this strategy of Psychology can contribute for teachers to develop new responses to this nerve-wracking theme.