On the Raveling of Deep Aspect: Curriculum as Subjective Place

2023 Bergamo Keynote Address that explores the idea of curriculum as a subjective place, first through a brief review of psychoanalytic and curriculum scholarship that discloses the concept and then through a reading of Dolsy Smith’s (2020) para-academic, autotheoretical book, Rough Notes to Erasure: White Male Privilege, My Senses, and the Story I Cannot Tell. Through the reading of Smith’s book, the author develops and offers a specification of the subjective place of curriculum that emphasizes the encoding of psychical locality in its social implication and involution.