Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis: Mobius Inflections

Author(s) : Todd Anderson

Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis: Mobius Inflections

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 386
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98626
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041335993
  • ISBN 10 : 1041335997

Table of Contents


Orientation—Curved Psychoanalysis and the Arc of the Work

Part 1: The Turn: Epistemic Curvature and the Collapse of Obviousness
1. The Möbius Turn
2. Obviousness as Orientation
3. Remainder as Ontological Curvature

Interlude I: The Tear

Part 2: Life on a One-Sided Surface
4. Möbius Enactment: When Knowing Becomes Being
5. Projection and Projective Identification as Micro-Twists
6. The Möbius Unconscious
7. Dissociation and the Tear: When Orientation Collapses

Interlude II: On the Refusal of the Case

8. Analytic Presence as Movement along the Surface
9. Symbolization on a One-Sided Surface

Part 3: Time without Exit
10. Time on the Möbius: Recurrence, Return, and the Ethics of Re-Entering
11. Time without Exit: Recursion, Survival, and the Refusal of Resolution

Interlude III: Staying

12. Living without Resolution: The Ethics of Unfinished Time
13. Closing: Curved Being

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