Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Epistemic Inversions and the Recursive Psyche
Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
ISBN: 978-1-041-25520-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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.
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Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development
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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 11.The 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
