TY - GEN T1 - Knowing nothing, staying stupid : elements for a psychoanalytic epistemology A1 - Nobus, Dany A2 - Quinn, Malcolm, 1963- LA - English PP - London ; New York PB - Routledge YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm61846988 AB - 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. OP - 122 CN - BF175.4.P45 N63 2005eb SN - 0203086996 SN - 9780203086995 SN - 9780203970256 SN - 020397025X SN - 1135446202 SN - 9781135446208 SN - 1280224398 SN - 9781280224393 SN - 1583918671 SN - 158391868X SN - 9781583918678 SN - 9781583918685 KW - Psychoanalysis and philosophy. KW - Psychanalyse et philosophie. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Movements : Psychoanalysis. KW - Psychoanalysis and philosophy ER -