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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Bibliographic Details
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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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798128806719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I The subject of psychoanalysis: knowledge, truth and meaning; 1 Midwives of the whys and wherefores: on the logic of psychoanalytic discovery; 2 A matter of cause: knowledge and truth in the practice of psychoanalysis; 3 The punning of reason: meaning, nonsense and the limits of psychoanalytic language; 4 Knowledge in failure: crises of legitimacy and the emergence of institutionalized doctrine; PART II Less than knowledge: psychoanalysis and the economies of thought
  • 5 Reading Seminar XVII: from the desire to know to the fall of knowledge6 Concluding the time for comprehending: the epistemological reversal of the knowledge at risk; 7 The game beneath the game: logical aspects of the artifice, the dummy and the hoax; 8 Epistemological regression and the problem of applied psychoanalysis; Coda: Conceptualizing the rigorous hole; Notes; References; Index