TY - BOOK ID - 78144834 TI - Knowing nothing, staying stupid : elements for a psychoanalytic epistemology AU - Nobus, Dany. AU - Quinn, Malcolm PY - 2005 SN - 1135446202 1280224398 020397025X 0203086996 9780203086995 9780203970256 1583918671 158391868X 9781583918678 9781583918685 9781135446208 9781280224393 9781135446154 9781135446192 1135446199 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Psychoanalysis and philosophy. KW - Psychoanalysis. KW - Psychology KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Philosophy and psychoanalysis KW - Philosophy KW - Psychoanalysis and philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78144834 AB - 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 to place forms of knowledge in a dialectical relationship with non-knowledge, blindness, ignorance and stupidity. The book ER -