Henning Salling Olesen is professor in Adult and Continuing Education Research at University of Roskilde, and founding director for the Graduate School of Lifelong Learning. He was the chair for ESREA 1998-2013 and is co-editor of the European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA). He is advisory professor at East China Normal University, Shanghai, and was conferred a honorary doctorate by the University of Tampere, 2014.

• ForewordLaura FormentiThe European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA)AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsKirsten Weber in MemoriamIntroduction: The Scholarly LandscapeHenning Salling OlesenPart 1: The Psychoanalytic Inspiration1. Ambivalence and Experience: Un-Conscious Dimensions of Working Women’s Social Learning Women’s Lives and ExperiencesKirsten Weber2. Everyday Life and the Societal UnconsciousThomas LeithäuserPart 2: Understanding Learning and Learning Careers3. Aggression, Recognition and Qualification: On the Social Psychology of Adult Education in Everyday LifeKirsten Weber4. The Relevance of Biographical Studies for Empowerment StrategiesRegina Becker-Schmidt5. The Milk Lady: A Nurturing Identification ObjectKarsten Mellon6. What Does It Mean to Become a Church Minister?Sissel Finholt-PedersenPart 3: Understanding Interaction and Learning in Organizations and Institutions7. A Psychosocial Study of Collegial Relations among Secondary School Teachers in Times of ReformÅse Høgsbroe Lading8. Effective Leadership? A Case Study in Work PsychodynamicsPeter Henrik Raae9. The Uses of Objects: Reflexive Learning in the Epistemic MuseumLynn FroggettPart 4: Understanding Subjective Dimensions of Political Processes10. Psychoanalyis, Fundamentalism, Critical Theory and the Unconscious: Adult Education, Islamic Fundamentalism and the Subjectivity of OmniscienceLinden West11. Cultural Identity, Learning and Social Prejudice: The Politicization of Subjectivity in Former YugoslaviaHenning Salling OlesenPart 5: A Psychosocial Materialism12. Socialization, Language, and Scenic Understanding. Alfred Lorenzer’s Contribution to a Psychosocietal MethodologyHenning Salling Olesen and Kirsten WeberIndex

Henning Salling Olesen is professor in Adult and Continuing Education Research at University of Roskilde, and founding director for the Graduate School of Lifelong Learning. He was the chair for ESREA 1998-2013 and is co-editor of the European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA). He is advisory professor at East China Normal University, Shanghai, and was conferred a honorary doctorate by the University of Tampere, 2014.

• ForewordLaura FormentiThe European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA)AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsKirsten Weber in MemoriamIntroduction: The Scholarly LandscapeHenning Salling OlesenPart 1: The Psychoanalytic Inspiration1. Ambivalence and Experience: Un-Conscious Dimensions of Working Women’s Social Learning Women’s Lives and ExperiencesKirsten Weber2. Everyday Life and the Societal UnconsciousThomas LeithäuserPart 2: Understanding Learning and Learning Careers3. Aggression, Recognition and Qualification: On the Social Psychology of Adult Education in Everyday LifeKirsten Weber4. The Relevance of Biographical Studies for Empowerment StrategiesRegina Becker-Schmidt5. The Milk Lady: A Nurturing Identification ObjectKarsten Mellon6. What Does It Mean to Become a Church Minister?Sissel Finholt-PedersenPart 3: Understanding Interaction and Learning in Organizations and Institutions7. A Psychosocial Study of Collegial Relations among Secondary School Teachers in Times of ReformÅse Høgsbroe Lading8. Effective Leadership? A Case Study in Work PsychodynamicsPeter Henrik Raae9. The Uses of Objects: Reflexive Learning in the Epistemic MuseumLynn FroggettPart 4: Understanding Subjective Dimensions of Political Processes10. Psychoanalyis, Fundamentalism, Critical Theory and the Unconscious: Adult Education, Islamic Fundamentalism and the Subjectivity of OmniscienceLinden West11. Cultural Identity, Learning and Social Prejudice: The Politicization of Subjectivity in Former YugoslaviaHenning Salling OlesenPart 5: A Psychosocial Materialism12. Socialization, Language, and Scenic Understanding. Alfred Lorenzer’s Contribution to a Psychosocietal MethodologyHenning Salling Olesen and Kirsten WeberIndex

Henning Salling Olesen is professor in Adult and Continuing Education Research at University of Roskilde, and founding director for the Graduate School of Lifelong Learning. He was the chair for ESREA 1998-2013 and is co-editor of the European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA). He is advisory professor at East China Normal University, Shanghai, and was conferred a honorary doctorate by the University of Tampere, 2014.

• ForewordLaura FormentiThe European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA)AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsKirsten Weber in MemoriamIntroduction: The Scholarly LandscapeHenning Salling OlesenPart 1: The Psychoanalytic Inspiration1. Ambivalence and Experience: Un-Conscious Dimensions of Working Women’s Social Learning Women’s Lives and ExperiencesKirsten Weber2. Everyday Life and the Societal UnconsciousThomas LeithäuserPart 2: Understanding Learning and Learning Careers3. Aggression, Recognition and Qualification: On the Social Psychology of Adult Education in Everyday LifeKirsten Weber4. The Relevance of Biographical Studies for Empowerment StrategiesRegina Becker-Schmidt5. The Milk Lady: A Nurturing Identification ObjectKarsten Mellon6. What Does It Mean to Become a Church Minister?Sissel Finholt-PedersenPart 3: Understanding Interaction and Learning in Organizations and Institutions7. A Psychosocial Study of Collegial Relations among Secondary School Teachers in Times of ReformÅse Høgsbroe Lading8. Effective Leadership? A Case Study in Work PsychodynamicsPeter Henrik Raae9. The Uses of Objects: Reflexive Learning in the Epistemic MuseumLynn FroggettPart 4: Understanding Subjective Dimensions of Political Processes10. Psychoanalyis, Fundamentalism, Critical Theory and the Unconscious: Adult Education, Islamic Fundamentalism and the Subjectivity of OmniscienceLinden West11. Cultural Identity, Learning and Social Prejudice: The Politicization of Subjectivity in Former YugoslaviaHenning Salling OlesenPart 5: A Psychosocial Materialism12. Socialization, Language, and Scenic Understanding. Alfred Lorenzer’s Contribution to a Psychosocietal MethodologyHenning Salling Olesen and Kirsten WeberIndex