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Stupidity and Psychoanalysis
Lacanian Perspectives on New Subjectivities and Social Forms
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Stupidity and Psychoanalysis
Lacanian Perspectives on New Subjectivities and Social Forms
About this book
There is nothing new in thinking that we live in stupid times. Many past thinkers thought about stupidity as a symptom, however, Lacan considered stupidity as immune to the influence of psychoanalysis, saying about himself, "I am only relatively stupid?that is to say, I am as stupid as all people?perhaps because I got a little bit enlightened." Here it seems that stupidity signifies (and is signified by) the absence of any coherent foundation in desire and lack, but instead emanate from the will to jouissance. Here stupidity is inescapable whether it be individual, communal, or ideological.
In Stupidity and Psychoanalysis, chapters by internationally respected Lacanian analysts and theoreticians think about how we can understand stupidity as a specific psychoanalytic encounter. This collection draws critical Lacanian attention to considering new ways to approach stupidity and stupor as new contemporary subjective and social forms. Contributors provide various insights into how stupidity might be rethought as contemporary signifiers whose importance lies (for better or worse) more in producing effect than in transmitting meaning.
Contributors: Giole P. Cima, Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker, David Ferraro, Luis Izcovich, Adrian Johnston, James Martell, Jean-Michel Rabate, Samo Tomsic, Antonio Viselli, and Cindy Zeiher.
In Stupidity and Psychoanalysis, chapters by internationally respected Lacanian analysts and theoreticians think about how we can understand stupidity as a specific psychoanalytic encounter. This collection draws critical Lacanian attention to considering new ways to approach stupidity and stupor as new contemporary subjective and social forms. Contributors provide various insights into how stupidity might be rethought as contemporary signifiers whose importance lies (for better or worse) more in producing effect than in transmitting meaning.
Contributors: Giole P. Cima, Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker, David Ferraro, Luis Izcovich, Adrian Johnston, James Martell, Jean-Michel Rabate, Samo Tomsic, Antonio Viselli, and Cindy Zeiher.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- PRAISE FOR STUPIDITY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Why We Should Listen to Stupidityās Bad Reputation
- Chapter 1: Stupid Jokes
- Chapter 2: Natural Born Dupes: A Lacanian Theory of Stupidity
- Chapter 3: āFor to begin yet againā: Re-rising the Ground(s) of Stupidity in Deleuze-Schelling-Lacan
- Chapter 4: Stupidity of the Signifier
- Chapter 5: Lacan, Pigeons and Hedgehogs in Barbery and Achacheās The (Elegance of the) Hedgehog
- Chapter 6: Errare Humanum Est: On Psychoanalysis as Morosophy
- Chapter 7: Responses to the Sexual Void: Capitalism, Paranoia and Disavowal
- Chapter 8: A Mass of Fools and Knaves: Psychoanalysis and the Worldās Many Asininities
- Chapter 9: Can One Be Less Stupid?
- Chapter 10: A Paradigmatic Case of Brazilian National Stupidity
- Chapter 11: Seriously! That Is Fucking Stupid!: The Importance of Being Stupid, Earnestly
- Index
- About the Contributors