{"product_id":"knowing-nothing-staying-stupid-dany-nobus-9781583918678","title":"Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy is stupidity sublime?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKnowing Nothing, Staying Stupid\u003c\/em\u003e 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 to place forms of knowledge in a dialectical relationship with non-knowledge, blindness, ignorance and stupidity. The book draws out the implications of a psychoanalytic theory of knowledge for the practices of knowledge construction, acquisition and transmission across the humanities and social sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into two sections. The first section addresses the foundations of a psychoanalytic approach to knowledge as it emerges from clinical practice, whilst the second section considers the problems and issues of applied psychoanalysis, and the ambiguous position of the analyst in the public sphere. Subjects covered include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Logic of Psychoanalytic Discovery \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreative Knowledge Production and Institutionalised Doctrine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Desire to Know versus the Fall of Knowledge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpistemological Regression and the Problem of Applied Psychoanalysis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis provocative discussion of the dialectics of knowing and not knowing will be welcomed by practicing psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalytic studies, but also by everyone working in the fields of social science, philosophy and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dany Nobus,Malcolm Quinn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1583918671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781583918678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.76h x 6.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Dany Nobus","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065720910079,"sku":"9781583918678","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc9fdd2f-7a4d-460a-9b28-bfaeb22b8045.jpg?v=1768676818","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/knowing-nothing-staying-stupid-dany-nobus-9781583918678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}