Stupidity and Psychoanalysis: Lacanian Perspectives on New Subjectivities and Social Forms

A collection of essays by internationally recognised and respected Lacanian analysts and theoreticians, this book thinks about how we can understand stupidity as a specific and necessary psychoanalytic encounter.

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...