ABSTRACT
The term indiscipline covers a variety of quite distinct phenomena in schools. Based on Bion’s ideas, this article will argue that indiscipline defines itself as individual and institutional non-tolerated and non-processed emotional experiences, which are in search of mental processing. This work will conclude that the role of the adult responsible for taking the disciplinary measures should not be a corrective function, but, instead, to provide containment for the anxieties that permeate the episodes associated to the indiscipline in question.
Keywords
Indiscipline; Beta-elements; Alpha-function; Projective identification; Psychoanalysis and education