1st Edition
Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology
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.
Biography
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.
'This is the most useful guide to so-called applied psychoanalysis that I have ever read.' - Jason B. Jones, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
