Stupidity and Psychoanalysis

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Cindy Zeiher is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in training, translator and senior lecturer at Te Whare W nanga 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.

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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.

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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 Tomi

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

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