Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis: Möbius Inflections - Paperback

by Todd Anderson (Author)

In Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis, Todd Anderson develops a Möbius model of analytic life in which knowing and being fold continuously into one another.

The book explores how ethical orientation arises within the curved structure of analytic perception itself, where epistemology and ontology invert through recursive movement. Drawing on Winnicott, Loewald, Levinas, Derrida, and contemporary relational psychoanalysis, Anderson develops a curved topology of analytic experience in which subject and object emerge as Möbius inflections within a shared field. Clinical vignettes, philosophical reflections, and engagements with music and aesthetic form demonstrate how paradox operates as a generative condition of analytic life rather than a problem to be resolved.

By reframing psychoanalysis through topology and ethical relation, Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis offers clinicians and theorists a new vocabulary for working with uncertainty and symbolic remainder while remaining grounded in the immediacy of the analytic encounter.

Author Biography

Todd Anderson, PhD, PsyD, is a New York-based psychoanalyst in private practice. His writing explores recursive process, analytic presence, and symbolic remainder within curved psychoanalysis, integrating object relations, relational theory, and contemporary philosophy. He is the author of The Fragmented Self, Recognition, and the Edge of Desire; Gravitational Psyche; and Unknowing as Truth.