Stupidity and Psychoanalysis by Cindy Zeiher - 9781786616203

Stupidity and PsychoanalysisLacanian Perspectives on New Subjectivities and Social Forms\nAuthor(s): Cindy Zeiher\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781786616203, 978-1786616203\nSynopsis\nThere 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.\nIn Stupidity and Psychoanalysis, chapters by internationally respected Lacanian analysts and theoreticians think .