Psychic Curriculum: Transindividual Processes of Educational Memory and Forgetting

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Abstract

This paper theorizes curriculum as a site of transindividual psychic processes that shape collective educational memory through dynamic interplays of subjection and creative resistance. Drawing on Judith Butler's concept of psychic power, Gilbert Simondon's politics of transindividuation, Jacques Lacan's structural psychoanalysis, and Mari Ruti and Gail Newman's work on creative alternatives to neoliberal subjectivity, I argue that curriculum operates as both a mechanism of psychic subjection and a potential space for transindividual becoming. The paper illuminates how unconscious processes determine what educational histories get remembered, forgotten, or foreclosed, while creating possibilities for new forms of collective educational imagination that resist optimization imperatives and white hegemonic knowledge systems.

Author

• Jory Rizal, Independent Scholar