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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=140667 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (122 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-118) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203086996 9780203086995 9780203970256 020397025X 1135446202 9781135446208 1280224398 9781280224393 1583918671 158391868X 9781583918678 9781583918685 |