On Thinking and Not Being Able to Think
Reflections on Viewing the Abu Ghraib Photos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9230969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald Moss (0009-0004-2533-2543, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, corresponding author), Donald B Moss |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 515-545 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2007.tb00266.x |
| PMID | 17503626 |
| OpenAlex | W2123506768 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Using experiences from childhood, from encounters with contemporary art, from clinical experience, and, most elaborately, from an initial viewing of the Abu Ghraib photos, the author argues that the interpretability of experience depends upon its being legible. This legibility, in turn, depends upon the interpreter maintaining contact with his/her own capacities for thought, and, more fundamentally, with the vitally necessary community of others with whom he/she shares those capacities
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Interpretability · Interpreter · Legibility · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Visual arts · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Empathy and Medical Education · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |