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Beschreibung

Unknowing as Truth reframes psychoanalysis as a discipline of recursive hospitality through the lens of epistemic inversion-treating unknowing not as deficit but as the living medium of analytic truth.

This book invites clinicians to work at the rim of symbolization-where refusals, reversals, and surprises preserve vitality-and cultivate an ethic of presence that lets meaning arrive without force. It shifts the axis from paradox to inversion, toward a recursive, "curved" epistemology that privileges atmosphere over linear mastery and recasts the analytic field as a participatory climate. Chapters map the grammar of inversion, articulate ethical refusal as protection of remainder, and show how recursive return keeps analysis alive when language thins. It integrates classical theory, contemporary relational work and post-structural thought drawing on cross-disciplinary strands of poetry, music, and visual art as models of open form. Anderson establishes a coherent clinical method for working with not-knowing-moving beyond "tolerance of ambiguity."

With a rich blend of clinical vignettes, teaching pathways, study prompts, and a lexicon for supervision, this book offers a teachable, clinically resonant architecture for psychoanalysts.

Unknowing as Truth reframes psychoanalysis as a discipline of recursive hospitality through the lens of epistemic inversion-treating unknowing not as deficit but as the living medium of analytic truth.

This book invites clinicians to work at the rim of symbolization-where refusals, reversals, and surprises preserve vitality-and cultivate an ethic of presence that lets meaning arrive without force. It shifts the axis from paradox to inversion, toward a recursive, "curved" epistemology that privileges atmosphere over linear mastery and recasts the analytic field as a participatory climate. Chapters map the grammar of inversion, articulate ethical refusal as protection of remainder, and show how recursive return keeps analysis alive when language thins. It integrates classical theory, contemporary relational work and post-structural thought drawing on cross-disciplinary strands of poetry, music, and visual art as models of open form. Anderson establishes a coherent clinical method for working with not-knowing-moving beyond "tolerance of ambiguity."

With a rich blend of clinical vignettes, teaching pathways, study prompts, and a lexicon for supervision, this book offers a teachable, clinically resonant architecture for psychoanalysts.

Über den Autor

Todd Anderson, PhD, PsyD, is a New York-based psychoanalyst. His work explores how dissociation, desire, and symbolic remainder shape psychic survival, drawing together object relations, relational psychoanalysis, and contemporary philosophy in a vivid, practice-centered prose.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Inverted Fame 1. Unknowing at the Threshold-From Interpretation to Epistemic Refusal 2. Oedipus as Myth of Knowing-Refusing the Law of Linearity 3. Projection as Knowledge Transmission-Recursive Unknowing and the Symbolic Field Part II: The Recursive Field 4. Recursive Interiors-Self-Structure, Temporality, and the Symbolic Logic of Linking 5. Introjection as Hospitality-Containment, Curvature, and the Limits of Psychic Welcome 6. Fantasy as Recursive Field-Atmosphere, Emergence, and the Ethics of Not-Knowing 7. Destruction as Inversion-Aggression, Ruin, and the Ethics of Refusal 8. Civilization as Remainder-Opacity, the Uncanny, and the Failure to Sublimate Part III: The Ethics of Unknowing 9. Antigone's Refusal-Witnessing, Opacity, and the Ethics of Unlawful Knowing 10. The Uncanny as Curved Structure-Estrangement, Surprise, and Recursive Affect [...] Ethics of Failure-Witnessing, Not-Knowing, and Containment 12. The Other Side of Knowing-Secrecy, Surprise, and the Symbolic 13. Coda-Recursive Ethics and the Future of Unknowing Afterthinking at the Edge: Recursive Hospitality, Tögal, and the Weather of Analytic Life

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Psychoanalyse
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781041250845
ISBN-10: 1041250843
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Anderson, Todd
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 155 x 234 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Todd Anderson
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.05.2026
Gewicht: 0,518 kg
Artikel-ID: 135304671

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