Dany Nobus, Malcolm Quinn

Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid

Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

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Produktbeschreibung

In "Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid," Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn draw on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating discussion of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis and related disciplines. Adopting a Lacanian framework of reference, this book clarifies the status of knowledge in psychoanalysis and the implications of this for knowledge construction, acquisition and transmission across a variety of humanities and social sciences. The authors provide an original perspective on psychoanalytic epistemology and methodology, including discussion of central questions such as that of the status of psychoanalysis as an art, science or religion. This provocative discussion of the dialectics of knowing and not knowing, and how they inform Freudian and Lacanian theory, will be welcomed by practicing Psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalytic studies, cultural studies, sociology and philosophy

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 166mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781583918685
• ISBN-10: 158391868X
• Artikelnr.: 21283780

Autorenporträt

Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Brunel University. He is the author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal for Lacanian Studies. Malcolm Quinn is Reader in Critical Practice, University of the Arts London. He has published work on the fascist spectacle, art and cultural politics. He is an Editor of Journal for Lacanian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: The Subject of Psychoanalysis: Knowledge, Truth and
Meaning. Midwifes of the Whys and Wherefores: On the Logic of
Psychoanalytic Discovery. A Matter of Cause: Knowledge and Truth in the
Practice of Psychoanalysis. The Punning of Reason: Meaning, Nonsense and
the Limits of Psychoanalytic Language. Knowledge in Failure: Crisis of
Legitimacy and the Emergence of Institutionalised Doctrine. Part II: Less
than Knowledge: Psychoanalysis and the Economies of Thought. Reading
Seminar XVII: From the Desire to Know to the Fall of Knowledge. Concluding
the Time for Comprehending: The Epistemological Reversal of the Knowledge
at Risk. The Game Beneath the Game: Logical Aspects of the Artifice, the
Dummy and the Hoax. Epistemological Regression and the Problem of Applied
Psychoanalysis. Coda Conceptualising the Rigorous Hole.