Cindy Zeiher is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in training, translator and senior lecturer at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury, where she teaches modernism and postmodernism in the human services program. Her work explores psychoanalytic interventions and interpretations relating to subjectivity, ontology, politics and creativity, especially music. Her poetry has been published and anthologised in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Why We Should Listen to Stupidity’s Bad Reputation Cindy ZeiherChapter 1. Stupid JokesJean-Michel Rabate´Chapter 2. Natural Born Dupes: A Lacanian Theory of StupidityGioele P. CimaChapter 3. “For to Begin Yet Again”: Re-Rising the Ground(s) of Stupidity in Deleuze-Schelling-LacanJames MartellChapter 4. Stupidity of the SignifierSamo TomšicChapter 5. Lacan and PigeonsAntonio Viselli Chapter 6. Errare Humanum Est… On Psychoanalysis as MorosophyDany NobusChapter 7. Responses to the Sexual Void: Capitalism, Paranoia and DisavowalDavid FerraroChapter 8. A Mass of Fools and Knaves’: Psychoanalysis and the World’s Many AsininitiesAdrian JohnstonChapter 9. Can One be Less Stupid?Luis Izcovich, Translated by Ed PluthChapter 10. A Paradigmatic Case of Brazilian National Stupidity: Olavo de CarvalhoChristian Ingo Lenz DunkerChapter 11. Seriously! That is Fucking Stupid! The Importance of Being Stupid, EarnestlyCindy ZeiherIndexAbout the Contributors

Cindy Zeiher has provided us here with an erudite collection of irreverent reflections on a topic of no small importance! In these pages, the reader will find Freud glowingly characterized as the world’s first Professor of Stupidity, and psychoanalysis as at times a foolosophical enterprise that takes human stupidity as its main object of study. Thought by some to be excessively cerebral, Lacan nevertheless invites us—analysands and analysts alike—to dwell and even revel in stupidity. In this collection, the contributors evince studied stupidity by allowing themselves to remain dupes of the unconscious.

Cindy Zeiher is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in training, translator and senior lecturer at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury, where she teaches modernism and postmodernism in the human services program. Her work explores psychoanalytic interventions and interpretations relating to subjectivity, ontology, politics and creativity, especially music. Her poetry has been published and anthologised in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Why We Should Listen to Stupidity’s Bad Reputation Cindy ZeiherChapter 1. Stupid JokesJean-Michel Rabate´Chapter 2. Natural Born Dupes: A Lacanian Theory of StupidityGioele P. CimaChapter 3. “For to Begin Yet Again”: Re-Rising the Ground(s) of Stupidity in Deleuze-Schelling-LacanJames MartellChapter 4. Stupidity of the SignifierSamo TomšicChapter 5. Lacan and PigeonsAntonio Viselli Chapter 6. Errare Humanum Est… On Psychoanalysis as MorosophyDany NobusChapter 7. Responses to the Sexual Void: Capitalism, Paranoia and DisavowalDavid FerraroChapter 8. A Mass of Fools and Knaves’: Psychoanalysis and the World’s Many AsininitiesAdrian JohnstonChapter 9. Can One be Less Stupid?Luis Izcovich, Translated by Ed PluthChapter 10. A Paradigmatic Case of Brazilian National Stupidity: Olavo de CarvalhoChristian Ingo Lenz DunkerChapter 11. Seriously! That is Fucking Stupid! The Importance of Being Stupid, EarnestlyCindy ZeiherIndexAbout the Contributors

Cindy Zeiher has provided us here with an erudite collection of irreverent reflections on a topic of no small importance! In these pages, the reader will find Freud glowingly characterized as the world’s first Professor of Stupidity, and psychoanalysis as at times a foolosophical enterprise that takes human stupidity as its main object of study. Thought by some to be excessively cerebral, Lacan nevertheless invites us—analysands and analysts alike—to dwell and even revel in stupidity. In this collection, the contributors evince studied stupidity by allowing themselves to remain dupes of the unconscious.

Cindy Zeiher is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in training, translator and senior lecturer at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury, where she teaches modernism and postmodernism in the human services program. Her work explores psychoanalytic interventions and interpretations relating to subjectivity, ontology, politics and creativity, especially music. Her poetry has been published and anthologised in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Why We Should Listen to Stupidity’s Bad Reputation Cindy ZeiherChapter 1. Stupid JokesJean-Michel Rabate´Chapter 2. Natural Born Dupes: A Lacanian Theory of StupidityGioele P. CimaChapter 3. “For to Begin Yet Again”: Re-Rising the Ground(s) of Stupidity in Deleuze-Schelling-LacanJames MartellChapter 4. Stupidity of the SignifierSamo TomšicChapter 5. Lacan and PigeonsAntonio Viselli Chapter 6. Errare Humanum Est… On Psychoanalysis as MorosophyDany NobusChapter 7. Responses to the Sexual Void: Capitalism, Paranoia and DisavowalDavid FerraroChapter 8. A Mass of Fools and Knaves’: Psychoanalysis and the World’s Many AsininitiesAdrian JohnstonChapter 9. Can One be Less Stupid?Luis Izcovich, Translated by Ed PluthChapter 10. A Paradigmatic Case of Brazilian National Stupidity: Olavo de CarvalhoChristian Ingo Lenz DunkerChapter 11. Seriously! That is Fucking Stupid! The Importance of Being Stupid, EarnestlyCindy ZeiherIndexAbout the Contributors

Cindy Zeiher has provided us here with an erudite collection of irreverent reflections on a topic of no small importance! In these pages, the reader will find Freud glowingly characterized as the world’s first Professor of Stupidity, and psychoanalysis as at times a foolosophical enterprise that takes human stupidity as its main object of study. Thought by some to be excessively cerebral, Lacan nevertheless invites us—analysands and analysts alike—to dwell and even revel in stupidity. In this collection, the contributors evince studied stupidity by allowing themselves to remain dupes of the unconscious.