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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956878703321

Autore

Laplanche Jean

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-134-79033-3

1-280-14882-9

0-203-98147-2

1-283-88241-8

1-134-79034-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Warwick studies in European philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

FletcherJohn <1948->

Disciplina

150.19/5

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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