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In Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis, Todd Anderson develops a Moebius 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 Moebius 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.