Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty - Softcover

Petrucelli, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855756579 ISBN 13: 9781855756571

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

A contemporary, wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing. The twenty-eight essays collected here invite readers to reflect upon the ways the mind is structured around and through knowing, not-knowing, and sort-of-knowing or uncertainty. The authors explore the ramifications of being up against the limits of what they can know as through their clinical practice, and theoretical considerations, they simultaneously attempt to open up psychic and physical experience. How, they ask, do we tolerate ambiguity and blind spots as we try to know? And how do we make all of this useful to our patients and ourselves? The authors approach these and similar epistemological questions through an impressively wide variety of clinical dilemmas (e.g., the impact of new technologies upon the analytic dyad) and theoretical specialties (e.g., neurobiology).

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Jean Petrucelli

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855756579
• ISBN 13: 9781855756571
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 422