Knowing nothing, staying stupid
Subtitle: elements for a psychoanalytic epistemology
By: Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn.
Contributors: Quinn, Malcolm, 1963-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The subject of psychoanalysis : knowledge, truth and meaning; title: Midwifes of the whys and wherefores : on the logic of psychoanalytic discovery; title: A matter of cause : knowledge and truth in the practice of psychoanalysis; title: The punning of reason : meaning, nonsense, and the limits of psychoanalytic language; title: Knowledge in failure : crisis of legitimacy and the emergence of institutionalised doctrine; title: Part II: Less than knowledge : psychoanalysis and the economies of thought; title: Reading Seminar XVII : from the desire to know to the fall of knowledge; title: Concluding the time for comprehending : the epistemological reversal of the knowledge at risk; title: The game beneath the game : logical aspects of the artifice, the dummy, and the hoax; title: Epistemological regression and the problem of applied psychoanalysis; title: Coda: Conceptualising the rigorous hole.