Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9781583918685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 264 str.

Dany Nobus; Malcolm Quinn;Nobus

Opis

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

Recenzje

'This is the most useful guide to so-called applied psychoanalysis that I have ever read.' - Jason B. Jones, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society

Spis treści

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.