Unknowing as Truth: Epistemic Inversions and the Recursive Psyche

Author(s) : Todd Anderson

Unknowing as Truth: Epistemic Inversions and the Recursive Psyche

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 346
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98533
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041250845
  • ISBN 10 : 1041250843

Table of Contents


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

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