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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nobus, Dany
Otros Autores: Quinn, Malcolm
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.