Knowing nothing, staying stupid : elements for a psychoanalytic epistemology /
Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn
- 1st ed.
- London : Routledge, 2005
- vi, 251 p. ; 23 cm.
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