Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

by Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158391868X
• ISBN13: 9781583918685
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.5"