Knowing nothing, staying stupid elements for a psychoanalytic epistemology

Why is stupidity sublime?What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics?Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framew...

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Main Author: Nobus, Dany (-)
Other Authors: Quinn, Malcolm, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 2005.
London ; New York : 2005.
Edition:First edition
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Summary:Why is stupidity sublime?What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics?Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framework, Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn question the basic assumption that knowledge is universally good and describe how psychoanalysis is in a position to place forms of knowledge in a dialectical relationship with non-knowledge, blindness, ignorance and stupidity. The book
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (255 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781135446192
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