Stupidity and Psychoanalysis

Lacanian Perspectives on New Subjectivities and Social Forms

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2025
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78661-620-3 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

A collection of essays by internationally recognised and respected Lacanian analysts and theoreticians, Stupidity and Psychoanalysis thinks about how we can understand stupidity as a specific and necessary psychoanalytic encounter.

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.

Cindy Zeiher is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in training, translator and senior lecturer at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury, where she teaches modernism and postmodernism in the human services program. Her work explores psychoanalytic interventions and interpretations relating to subjectivity, ontology, politics and creativity, especially music. Her poetry has been published and anthologised in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why We Should Listen to Stupidity’s Bad Reputation
Cindy Zeiher
Chapter 1. Stupid Jokes
Jean-Michel Rabate´
Chapter 2. Natural Born Dupes: A Lacanian Theory of Stupidity
Gioele P. Cima
Chapter 3. “For to Begin Yet Again”: Re-Rising the Ground(s) of Stupidity in Deleuze-Schelling-Lacan
James Martell
Chapter 4. Stupidity of the Signifier
Samo Tomšic
Chapter 5. Lacan and Pigeons
Antonio Viselli
Chapter 6. Errare Humanum Est… On Psychoanalysis as Morosophy
Dany Nobus
Chapter 7. Responses to the Sexual Void: Capitalism, Paranoia and Disavowal
David Ferraro
Chapter 8. A Mass of Fools and Knaves’: Psychoanalysis and the World’s Many Asininities
Adrian Johnston
Chapter 9. Can One be Less Stupid?
Luis Izcovich, Translated by Ed Pluth
Chapter 10. A Paradigmatic Case of Brazilian National Stupidity: Olavo de Carvalho
Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker
Chapter 11. Seriously! That is Fucking Stupid! The Importance of Being Stupid, Earnestly
Cindy Zeiher
Index
About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	23.01.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 BW Illustrations, 5 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	1-78661-620-3 / 1786616203
ISBN-13	978-1-78661-620-3 / 9781786616203
Zustand	Neuware