Le désengagement impossible. L’angoisse des professeurs des écoles débutants

Abstract

The anxiety of novice schoolteachers is expressed in the tension between aspirations to be and a position experienced as untenable. Drawing on a sociology of socialization and a sociology of institutions, and based on an ethnographic study, this article shows that anxiety is an unhappy relationship that is located in a social position. It can be linked to social foundations and in particular to social arrangements more or less propitious to the expression of anxiety attacks. It also comes from an institutional mode of functioning whose form is imposed on bodies and shapes these arrangements. This article also shows the importance of the body in these tensions. Unable to stay or to get out, novices express an impossible disengagement through the body.

Keywords

• institution
• body
• anguish
• dispositions
• mismatch