Per una critica pedagogica dell’istinto materno. Considerazioni di pedagogia della famiglia e della comunità a partire da E. Fink

Abstract

In the common sense and in the spontaneous pedagogy incorporated in it, the maternal instinct is considered as a taken- for-granted and a constitutive and indispensable element of parenting. In feminist studies, however, the maternal instinct has often been a polemical target in the so-called "critique of patriarchy" and considered a mere cultural construction. In this direction, both the rhetoric of sacrifice as a characterizing element of the "good mother" and the very idea of the "good mother" have been criticized. In the context of phenomenological pedagogy, it is necessary to bracket all this approaches, in order to overcome even sociological considerations. To develop a properly pedagogical analysis, the chapter presents the thought of a philosopher of education and pedagogist, belonging to the phenomenological school, still not enough studied: Eugen Fink.