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Stupidity and Psychoanalysis

Lacanian Perspectives on New Subjectivities and Social Forms

AvCindy Zeiher

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-23
Mått:148 x 226 x 18 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rowman & Littlefield
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798881806255

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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.

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Cindy Zeiher has provided us here with an erudite collection of irreverent reflections on a topic of no small importance! In these pages, the reader will find Freud glowingly characterized as the world’s first Professor of Stupidity, and psychoanalysis as at times a foolosophical enterprise that takes human stupidity as its main object of study. Thought by some to be excessively cerebral, Lacan nevertheless invites us—analysands and analysts alike—to dwell and even revel in stupidity. In this collection, the contributors evince studied stupidity by allowing themselves to remain dupes of the unconscious.

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Why We Should Listen to Stupidity’s Bad Reputation Cindy ZeiherChapter 1. Stupid JokesJean-Michel Rabate´Chapter 2. Natural Born Dupes: A Lacanian Theory of StupidityGioele P. CimaChapter 3. “For to Begin Yet Again”: Re-Rising the Ground(s) of Stupidity in Deleuze-Schelling-LacanJames MartellChapter 4. Stupidity of the SignifierSamo TomšicChapter 5. Lacan and PigeonsAntonio Viselli Chapter 6. Errare Humanum Est… On Psychoanalysis as MorosophyDany NobusChapter 7. Responses to the Sexual Void: Capitalism, Paranoia and DisavowalDavid FerraroChapter 8. A Mass of Fools and Knaves’: Psychoanalysis and the World’s Many AsininitiesAdrian JohnstonChapter 9. Can One be Less Stupid?Luis Izcovich, Translated by Ed PluthChapter 10. A Paradigmatic Case of Brazilian National Stupidity: Olavo de CarvalhoChristian Ingo Lenz DunkerChapter 11. Seriously! That is Fucking Stupid! The Importance of Being Stupid, EarnestlyCindy ZeiherIndexAbout the Contributors