Essays on otherness / Jean Laplanche ; [edited by John Fletcher].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laplanche, Jean.

Contributor:

Fletcher, John, 1948-

Series:

Warwick studies in European philosophy.

Warwick studies in European philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On Otherness presents for the first time in English many of Laplanche's key essays and is the first book to provide an overview of his thinking. It offers an introduction to many of the key themes that characterise his work: seduction, persecution, revelation, masochism, transference and mourning. Such themes have been increasingly both in psychoanaly

Contents:

Front Cover; Essays on Otherness; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Psychoanalysis and the Question of the Other by John Fletcher; 1. The Unfinished Copernican Revolution; 2. A Short Treatise on the Unconscious; 3. The Drive and its Source-Object: its Fate in the Transference; 4. Implantation, Intromission; 5. Interpretation between Determinism and Hermeneutics: a Restatement of the Problem; 6. Seduction, Persecution, Revelation; 7. Masochism and the General Theory of Seduction; 8. Transference: its Provocation by the Analyst; 9. Time and the Other

10. Notes on Afterwardsness Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-273) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-79033-3

1-280-14882-9

0-203-98147-2

1-283-88241-8

1-134-79034-1

9780203981474

OCLC:

475946426