Unconscious in Translation

Publication of these lectures from the 1989-90 seminar on apr?s-coup completes the English translation of the three major works from a period of Laplanche's greatest synthetic creativity, the other...

For this volume Jean Laplanche selected his principal writings from 1992 to 1998, a period in which he demonstrated the power and range of his psychoanalytic and philosophical inquiry, including his...

Freud and the Sexual is the translation of Laplanche's Sexual: La sexualit? ?largie au sens freudien, his work from 2000 to 2006, and a groundbreaking book by the French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche...

The appearance of New Foundations for Psychoanalysis in 1987 marked the beginning of five years that may be the period of Laplanche's greatest synthetic creativity during which he articulated the...

The definition of psychoanalysis is a question largely hidden by cultural conditions that favor eclecticism. Demonstrating the importance of psychoanalysis can become meaningless if one does not...

In one of his introductory lectures to psychoanalysis, Freud had this to say: "It is In general not such a common thing for psycho-analysis to deny something asserted by other people; as a rule it...

The Temptation of Biology is one of Laplanche's central achievements in the latter half of his career: a major monograph on sexuality. Originally published in 1987 as Le fourvoiement biologisant de...

The appearance of New Foundations for Psychoanalysis in 1987 marked the beginning of five years that may be the period of Laplanche's greatest synthetic creativity during which he articulated the...